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Diphtheria Immunisation.
This is a County Council service and I am indebted to the
County Medical Officer for the following return of immunisation
carried out during 1952.
During the year a total of 1,461 children received Primary
Inoculations and 1,328 Reinforcing Inoculations. (Figures for
1951 were 1,543 Primary and 2,109 Reinforcing Inoculations.)
A total of 12,814 children under the age of fifteen years at
31st December, 1952 had completed a course of immunisation
(i.e., at any time since 1st January, 1938).
Typhoid Fever.
One case of Paratyphoid was notified and was removed to
hospital. This was an isolated case and no secondary cases
occurred.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Eleven cases, two of which were removed to hospital, were
notified during 1952. This represents an attack rate of 8.4 per
1.000 total births. There was no mortality from this disease.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Two cases, tooth of which were home nursed, were notified.
In neither case was the vision impaired.
Pemphigus Neonatorum.
No cases were notified.
Measles.
One thousand three hundred and fifteen cases were notified
in the Urban District during 1952, as against one thousand, eight
hundred and twenty-four for 1951, giving an attack rate of 15.4
per 1,000 population.
Ten of these cases were admitted to hospital and the
remainder were home nursed.
The distribution of the cases occurring was fairly even
throughout the area.
There were no deaths from this disease recorded in the
district.
Whooping Cough.
Five hundred and thirty notifications of this disease were
received during 1952, as against four hundred and forty-one
during 1951, giving an attack rate of 6.2 per 1,000 population.
Six of these cases were removed to hospital and remainder
home nursed.