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Diphtheria and Diphtheria Immunisation.
Once again I am pleased to be able to report a complete
absence of this disease in the Urban District during 1959.
The County Medical Officer informs me that of the children
resident in the area who were born since 1945, a total of 1,126
received primary inoculations and 667 received re-inforcing
inoculations during 1959.
A total of 17,889 children under the age of fifteen years on
31st December, 1959, have completed a course of immunisation at
some time prior to that date.
Dysentery.
Ten cases were notified as against twelve in the previous year.
Food Poisoning.
A total of twenty-seven confirmed cases of food poisoning
occurred in the area during 1959, as against twelve in the previous
year.
There were no serious outbreaks of this disease, the majority
of the cases reported being isolated ones.
The following is a copy of the annual return rendered to the
Ministry of Health :—
1. Local Authority: Chislehurst & Sidcup Urban District Council. Year: 1959.
2. (a) Food Poisoning Notifications (Corrected) as returned to Registrar
General:
1st Quarter.
7
2nd Quarter.
10
3rd Quarter.
4
4th Quarter.
6
Total.
27
(b) Cases otherwise ascertained :
1st Quarter.
7
2nd Quarter.
3
3rd Quarter.
4th Quarter.
2
Total.
12
(c) Symptomless Excreters:
1st Quarter.
2nd Quarter.
3rd Quarter.
1
4th Quarter.
Total.
1
(d) Fatal Cases: Nil.