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INFECTIVE DISEASES 23
Other Infective Diseases
Ten deaths occurred from syphilis.
Scabies
Eight notifications were received. Sixteen treatments were given at
the Council's Disinfecting Station during the year.
At the Battersea Cleansing Station, a total of 54 treatments for
scabies and verminous conditions was given to women residents
(and children under school age) of Wandsworth in accordance with
the arrangements made by this Council with the Battersea Borough
Council in 1955.
Food Poisoning
One hundred and thirty-six notified or otherwise reported cases
were investigated during the year. Of these, 77 were found to be not
food poisoning after laboratory examination of faecal specimens
from those affected. Fifty-three of the remaining notifications were
single unrelated cases and six involved two or more persons.
The majority of the cases were only slightly affected and where
bacteriological examination was carried out, organisms likely to have
caused the illness were found in 30 cases. The organisms isolated
were Salmonella typhimurium (18), heidelberg (7), bredeney (4)
and menston.
Diseases Reported from Schools
A total of 3,132 infective diseases was reported from schools in the
Borough throughout the year. The numbers of each disease were:
Scarlet Fever 77 Scabies 3
Measles 216 Whooping Cough 14
German Measles 1,058 Mumps 261
Poliomyelitis 4 Dysentery 82
Chicken Pox 1,118 Other complaints 299
Disinfection
During the year 218 rooms were disinfected after infectious and
other disease, 234 rooms disinfested for vermin, and 25 rooms for
miscellaneous conditions.
Bacteriological Examinations
All bacteriological examinations are carried out at the Public
Health Laboratory at County Hall under its Director, Dr. A. J. H.
Tomlinson, to whom I would like to express thanks for the help and
assistance that he and his staff have given to my Department since
the inception of the Public Health Laboratory.