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SECTION 1
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
CONTROL
The diseases notifiable under the Public Health Act,
1936, are smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, membraneous croup,
erysipelas, scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid, enteric and
relapsing fever. The Minister of Health has also made
regulations whereby the following diseases are notifiable;
plague, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, puerperal pyrexia,
ophthalmia neonatorum, malaria, dysentery, acute primary
pneumonia, acute influenzal pneumonia, measles, whooping
cough, acute encephalitis and meningococcal infection,
Food Poisoning is notifiable under the provisions of the
Food and Drugs Act of 1955.
Many patients with infectious diseases today are
isolated and nursed at home. Leaflets describing the
essential points of home nursing of persons suffering
from infectious disease and advice as to disinfection are
provided where necessary.
When admission to hospital is required this is usually
to The South Middlesex (Mogden) or Neasden Isolation
Hospital.
The examination of pathological specimens is carried
out at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing, The Public
Health Department will arrange for the collection of
specimens, e.g. faeces and samples of suspected food or
vomited material for transmission to the King Edward
Memorial Hospital laboratory at the request of a general
practitioner,
2,752 cases of Infectious Disease were notified in
the Borough during the year. Of these 26 were proved not
to have suffered from the disease for which they were
originally notified reducing the corrected number of cases
of Infectious Disease during the year to 2,726.
DIPHTHERIA,
No cases were notified in 1957.
During the year 2,292 primary immunisations were given
either at Clinics or by General Practitioners and 2,480
booster doses. 1,731 children under one year had primary
immunisations which means that approximately 65%of children
in their first year of life were immunised in Ealing.