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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The following notifications were received during the year:-
Measles
Tuberculosis: Respiratory 31) 37
Non-Respiratory 6)
Whooping Cough 72
Scarlet Fever 26
Pneumonia 19
Puerpernal Pyrexia 8
Food Poisoning 5
Dysentery 5
Meningococcal Infection 2
Scabies 1
Erysipelas 1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum-
It is pleasing to note that not one single case of poliomyelitis was notified for
the third consecutive. year.
CARE OF THE AGED
As in Previous years, health visitors, home helps and visitors from voluntary
associations visit as often as possible but our over sixty-fives are increasing in
proportion to the rest of the population and as the span of life is now expanding
to 90 and even 94, it is easy to understand that the family even though willing, are unable through
through their own are (? 65-70) or infirmity to care adequately for an
aged relative. We must endeavour to relieve them, if not entirely, at least partially
of this burden and produce adequate facilities and accommodation for those who
in the evening of their days need to be cosseted by those whom they themselves
have helped so well in the past.
To this end in 1962 within the Barking area, “Mayesbrook” (an Essex County)
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