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SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
(1) Notification.
The evacuation scheme meant that we had a smaller
population vulnerable to infectious diseases after the
outbreak of war, and the notification figures show a
significant decline.
In October the Measles and Whooping Cough
(Provisional) Regulations, 1939, were introduced, making
these diseases notifiable.
The following table shows the number of notifications
of infectious diseases (other than Tuberculosis) received
during 1939
Disease
Total
Total cases
removed
to
Hospital
Deaths
Smallpox
—
—
Scarlet Fever
192
170
—
Diphtheria
91
91
—
Enteric Fever (including
Para-Typhoid Fever)
2
2
—
Puerperal Pyrexia
10
4
—
Pneumonia
Acute Influenzal
(18)
34
4
Acute Primary
(59)
3
Following Measles
(—)
—
Erysipelas
28
18
—
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
3
3
—
Acute Anterior
litis
1
1
—
Pemphigus Neonatorum
2
2
—
Dysentry
2
1
—
Food Poisoning
5
—
—
xMeasles
2
+5
—
xWhooping Cough
4
+6
—
Totals
419
337
7
X Notified during the period 29th October to 31 st
December only, under the Measles and Whooping
Cough (Provisional) Regulations, 1939.
+ Total for year.
(2) HOSPITALISATION.
On the 1st September the Barking infectious
Diseases) Hospital was completely evacuated of all its cases,
in order that it should fulfil its functions as a hospital
under the Emergency Medical Service Scheme.
Cases which were in the Hospital on the 1st
September and which were at that time still in need of