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22 REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1962
Puerperal Pyrexia
During the year 71 cases were notified, of which 64 occurred in
hospital and seven at home. Twenty of the hospital notifications
referred to patients whose home addresses were outside the Borough.
Information was also received of 12 cases, referring to Wandsworth
residents whose confinements took place in hospital located in other
Metropolitan boroughs.
Sonne Dysentery
A figure of 175 cases was finally arrived at for the year, compared
with 93 for 1961, but many other cases, suspected as being dysentery,
were investigated before the provisional diagnosis was eliminated by
bacteriological examination.
Although the majority of the cases investigated were single unrelated
cases, minor outbreaks did occur at five schools and one day
nursery in the Borough. Details of positive cases and numbers of stools
specimens examined in these outbreaks from actual and suspected
cases is given below:
No. of cases discovered No. of faecal specimens taken
Date Outbreak
Jan. Day Nursery 10 123
June School 19 120
July „ 23 164
Sept. „ 13 87
Oct. 32 156
Oct. 18 98
It is pleasant to record, once again, the help and co-operation
received by the department from general practitioners throughout
the Borough.
Influenza, Acute Influenzal Pneumonia and Acute Primary Pneumonia
Acute influenzal pneumonia and acute primary pneumonia are the
notifiable forms of pneumonia, and in 1962, 25 of the former and 118
of the latter were notified, as compared with 96 and 122 respectively
for the previous year.
Deaths attributable to acute influenzal pneumonia were 6; this
figure is classified under influenza in the death table on page 16.
Acute primary pneumonia accounted for 34 deaths, making a total
of 312 deaths for all forms of pneumonia compared with 325 in 1961.
Deaths in 1961 from acute influenzal pneumonia and acute
primary pneumonia were respectively 28 and 45.
Malaria
No cases were reported.
Erysipelas
Twenty-one cases were notified.