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Wandsworth 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Malaria
One notification of recurrent malaria was received, the patient
having previously contracted the disease abroad.
Measles
There were 1,562 notifications compared with 658 in 1968. As
already mentioned, the increase in number was expected. The
possible effect of immunization against measles in commented
upon in my introduction to this Report.
Ophthalmia neonatorum
This is an acute inflammatory condition of the eyes which sometimes
occurs in new-born babies, and twelve notifications were
received during the year.
Tuberculosis
New cases reported to the Department during 1969 totalled 132,
the sources of information being:—
Primary notifications 94
Unnotified at death 5
Transfers from other areas 33
132
The number of deaths certified as due to various forms of
tuberculosis was 11.

The following table gives details of primary notifications and deaths during the year classified by sex and age:—

Age GroupsPrimary NotificationsDeaths
PulmonaryNon- PulmonaryPulmonaryNon-Pulmonary
M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.
Under 1 year ..._--_----
1- 421----
5-923-_----
10-1411-1----
15-24443----
25-441510372-_-1
45-641651-1-
65 and over8434111
Totals48287116122

Typhoid fever and Paratyphoid fever
Two confirmed cases of typhoid fever were notified during the
year, a youth of 17 years of age and a girl of 7, both newly-arrived
immigrants to this country, one from Pakistan, the other from
India, in which countries it was thought they had first become