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THE HEALTH OF BARKING
SECTION C
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND
OTHER DISEASES.
NOTIFICATIONS.
Below is given a summary of the various notifications received during the
year:—
Measles 742
Whooping Cough 203
Scarlet Fever 139
Pneumonia 57
Puerperal Pyrexia 24
Erysipelas 19
Diphtheria 7
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 5
Dysentery 4
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 4
Pemphigus Neonatorum 3
Food Poisoning 2
Cerebro-spinal Fever 1
Encephalitis Lethargica 1
Paratyphoid Fever 1
DIPHTHERIA.
During the year, seven notifications of this disease were confirmed. This
figure is the same as for 1946. There were I am happy to say no deaths.
From the beginning of the war, an increasing number of people became
conscious of the value of immunisation and in 1942 a big national campaign made
the people of this country still further conscious of the value of this measure.
We have now reached a stage in this Borough when the total elimination of this
disease seems imminent, but there are still far too many parents who refuse this
life saving measure. One of the difficulties is that when the disease was raging all
round the people of Barking they did not need to be convinced of the dangers of the
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