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Marylebone 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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SECTION F.—PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES.
Table 9 gives information regarding notifications of infectious and other diseases notifiable in St.
Marylebone received during 1955. Enquiries relating to these and to infectious disease contacts
involved 1,433 visits by one of the women sanitary inspectors.
TABLE 9.—N otifiable D iseases and N otifications.
| * Notifiable Disease | Cases notified in whole Borough | Cases removed to hospital | Cases isolated at home | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages—years | ||||||||||||||
| -1 | 1- | 2— | 3— | 4- | 5— | 10— | 15— | 20— | 35— | 45— | 65— | ||||
| Erysipelas | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | 8 |
| Scarlet fever | 18 | - | — | — | 3 | — | 11 | 3 | — | 1 | — | - | - | 1 | 17 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 14 | - | — | — | — | — | — | - | 1 | 11 | 2 | — | - | 14 | - |
| Poliomyelitis— | |||||||||||||||
| Paralytic | 8 | - | 3 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 1 |
| Non-paralytic | 6 | - | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | - | — | 3 | — | — | — | 6 | — |
| Pneumonia | 13 | - | — | — | — | — | — | - | — | — | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| Dysentery | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| Measles | 588 | 16 | 54 | 83 | 99 | 89 | 220 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 2 | - | - | 28 | 560 |
| Whooping cough | 37 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 14 | - | — | — | — | 2 | — | 3 | 34 |
| Scabies | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 19 |
| Meningococcal infection | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorium | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | 1 |
| Tuberculosis— | |||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | 75 | -0 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 32 | 13 | 22 | 3 | 31 | 44 |
| Non-pulmonary | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | - | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — |
| Food poisoning | 117 | — | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | 9 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 56 | 3 | 114 |
| Typhoid fever | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | - | — | 1 | — | 1 | - | 2 | - |
| Paratyphoid fever | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | — |
| Totals | 924 | 23 | 62 | 95 | 107 | 92 | 257 | 16 | 21 | 96 | 41 | 47 | 67 | 105 | 819 |
* There were no cases in the Borough of the following diseases which are also notifiable : Smallpox,
diphtheria, membranous croup, cholera, typhus fever, relapsing fever, continued fever, plague, leprosy,
hydrophobia, glanders, farcy, anthrax, malaria, acute encephalitis (infective or post-infectious).
Tuberculosis.
Table 10 gives the age and sex distribution of new cases and of deaths from all forms of tuberculosis.
TABLE 10 . —Tuberculosis: N ew C ases and D eaths.
| At ages— years | ‡NEW CASES | DEATHS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0—1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1—5 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 5—15 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15—25 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| 25—35 | 19 | 18 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 35—45 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | — |
| 45—55 | 14 | 9 | — | - | - | — | - | — |
| 55—65 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | — |
| 65 and upwards | 6 | 2 | — | — | 5 | — | - | — |
| Totals | 79 | 53 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 2 | — | — |
| ‡Including all primary notifications and also any other new cases of tuberculosis which came to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year. | ||||||||
Notifications.—Table 9 (above) gives information regarding notifications of pulmonary and nonpulmonary
tuberculosis received during the year. Two hundred and twenty-two visits for enquiries
into housing and sanitary conditions were paid by one of the women sanitary inspectors to new cases
and those moving into the Borough from other areas. The total number of cases of tuberculosis
remaining on the register at the 31st December, 1955, was 887.