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Measles.
Only 26 cases were notified as compared with 1,127 during
1959. None of these cases were admitted to hospital and no
deaths were recorded.
Meningococcal Infections.
No cases were notified.
Pneumonia.
Fifteen cases were notified as against 42 during the previous
year. There were 32 deaths attributed to pneumonia, but this figure
includes people who are normally resident in the Urban District
and who died outside the area.
Scarlet Fever.
Notifications of this disease showed a reduction in 1960, a
total of 63 cases being notified as against 77 during 1959. Most
of these were of a very mild nature and only five cases went to
hospital. No deaths from this disease were recorded.
Smallpox and Vaccination.
A case of smallpox (not resident in this District) was imported
into the the country during October. The person concerned
travelled around London for a day or two before the disease was
diagnosed. During that time there had been possible contact with
three persons residing in this area.
It was necessary to keep these contacts under surveillance for
a time equivalent to the incubation period for the disease. I am
pleased to record that no further cases developed.
In connection with this occurrence, the entire staff of the Public
Health Department were re-vaccinated.
455 International Certificates of vaccination were dealt with by
the department during the course of the year. The County Medical
Officer informs me that a total of 908 residents in the area received
primary vaccination and 19 re-vaccination in 1960.
Tuberculosis.
The following table shows the position with regard to tuberculosis,
with comparative figures for the past 10 years (as corrected
by inward and outward transfers).
There were four deaths from tuberculosis during the year.