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SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
General.
Of the total notifications received during the year, 1,127
referred to measles, leaving only 264 others, which is an
exceptionally low figure.
In common with the rest of the country, the incidence of
anterior poliomyelitis in a year in which weather conditions might
have encouraged its spread, was very low but it is regrettable that
both the cases that did occur were serious ones. The complete
absence of typhoid and para-typhoid fevers combined with a low
incidence of dysentery were matters for congratulation. One is
thankful to be able to record another year without a single case of
diphtheria being notified, but no excuse is offered for stressing once
again the urgent necessity of keeping up the immunisation rate if
we are to avoid getting cases which indeed have occurred in the
Greater London Area during the past year.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis and Vaccination.
Only two cases of this disease occurred in the area during 1959,
as against seven in the previous year. Both of these cases were of
the paralytic type and were admitted to hospital.