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Two cases of paratyphoid occured during the year; one was a 7-year-old girl who
had been to Italy on holiday and the other a 5-year-old boy who on investigation was
found to have visited and eaten at a pie shop with his father, neither he nor his
parents having been out of the country. 3oth cases made an uneventful recovery,
and all contacts were tested and no related cases found.
Four cases of typhoid fever were notified during the year. One case was a girl
of 21, a laboratory technician at a London hospital, who had not been out of the
country but had been working on a specimen of faeces from another typhoid case.
She made an uneventful recovery. The three other cases had been either living or
staying abroad; one case, a child of 2, came from Karachi with her mother and
during investigations of contacts it was discovered that one of the contacts, a
man of 35, was a carrier of typhoid but of a different strain. He was admitted to
hospital for treatment and subsequently discharged, but moved into the Borough
of Camden. The Medical Officer of Health of Camden was notified. All cases
made uneventful recoveries, and contacts were tested and no related cases found.
Two cases of malaria were notified, one a girl of 3 and the other a woman of
25 years. In both cases the disease was contracted naturally abroad.
INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATES OF VACCINATION
Three forms of International Certificates of Vaccination, namely:-
smallpox, cholera and yellow fever, require authentication of the signature of
the doctor providing the vaccination or inoculation of persons proceeding
abroad. This is done by comparison of the signature on the certificate with
a file specimen of the doctor's signature previously supplied by him.
During the year, 11,795 such certificates were authenticated in the Department.
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