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2. INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Details of the incidence of the various notifiable infectious diseases and the action taken during
the year to prevent their spread is as follows;-
ANTHRAX
No cases were notified during the year.
CHOLERA
No cases were notified during the year.
DIPHTHERIA
No cases were notified during the year.
DYSENTERY
141 cases were notified during the year of which 16 were confirmed bacteriologically. In all
these the organism was Shigella Sonne.
ERYSIPELAS
3 cases were notified up to 1st October, 1968, when this disease ceased to be notifiable.
FOOD POISONING
19 cases were notified of which 14 were confirmed bacteriologically. The organisms were as
follows;-
Salmonella Typhimurium 8
Other Salmonellae 6
INFECTIVE JAUNDICE
This disease was made notifiable on 1st October, 1968, but infectious hepatitis has been
notifiable in the borough since November, 1965. The number of cases notified during the yza.iv&& 50 cf
which 15 were admitted to hospital. In conformity with the Council's control measures public health
inspectors visited the households and gave advice on the appropriate hygiene measures which should be
adopted and arrangements were made for the patient's linen and clothing to be disinfected by boiling
or autoclaving wherever possible.
MALARIA
Five cases were notified during the year. In each case the disease was believed to have been
contracted abroad.
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