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ESTABLISHMENTS FOR MASSAGE AND SPECIAL TREATMENT.
Bye-laws made by the Borough Council under the provisions of
the Essex County Council Act, 1933, enable the Council to register
and supervise establishments within the Borough for the giving of
massage and special treatment. Four establishments exist in Barking,
mainly for the purposes of chiropody, and the licences were renewed
during the year.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The following notifications of infectious diseases were received
during the year:—
Measles 460
Whooping Cough 449
Scarlet Fever 140
Tuberculosis 92
Pneumonia 65
Dysentery 59
Food Poisoning 21
Puerperal Pyrexia 20
Erysipelas 14
Scabies 12
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 8
Meningococcal Infection 2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum —
Pemphigus Neonatorum —
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever —
Diphtheria -
Measles
The 460 cases of measles were all notified early in jthe year and
represent the tail end of the 1952 epidemic.
Whooping Cough
There was a small outbreak of whooping cough during the earl)
summer months accounting for most of the 449 cases rotified.
It is to be hoped that with the gathering momentum of whoops
cough immunisation the severity of this disease will continue
diminish and that there will be fewer complications leading to permanepI
damage of the lung.
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