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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 under this Act whereby the following diseases
are notifiable: plague, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis,
puerperal pyrexia, ophthalmia neonatorum, malaria, dysen
tery. acute primary pneumonia, acute influenzal pneumonia,
measles, whooping cough, acute encephalitis and meningo
coccal infection Pood Poisoning is notifiable under the
provisions of the Pood and Drugs Act of 1955 and Gastroenteritis
under the Milk and Dairies (General) Regulations,
1959 made under this Act.
2,844 cases of Infectious Disease were notified in
the Borough during the year. Of these 6 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 2 838.
DIPHTHERIA
There were no cases.
During the year 2 204 primary immunisations were
given either at Clinics or by General Practitioners and
1.798 booster doses. 1.725 children under one year had
primary immunisations which means that approximately 73%
of children in their first year of life were immunised in
Ealing
DYSENTERY.
194 cases were notified compared with 244 in 1958.
ERYSIPELAS
9 cases were notified
FOOD POISONING.
37 cases were notified. The causative organism was
identified in 13 cases. The higher number of notifications
was due to an outbreak which occurred following a private
staff party in another district but a number of the
employees lived in this Borough.