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PETROLEUM (REGULATIONS) ACTS, 1928-1936
During the year 6 new licences and 114 renewals were granted by the
Council. The following is a list of particulars of quantities, etc., affected
by these licences
Petroleum Spirit 500,498 gallons
Petroleum Mixtures 20,713 gallons
Rubber Solution 100 lbs. and 800 gallons
PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT
Thirty-seven inspections of cinemas and other places of entertainment
were made in accordance with the Circular of the Ministry of Health of 1920.
Conditions were found to be generally satisfactory.
EPIDEMIOLOGY
MEASLES
Measles spread from Enfield to the north-west corner of the Borough
in January. During February and March, it spread mainly in association with
the Infants' Schools. In the middle of April, a peak incidence of 42 cases
in one week was recorded. Thereafter, measles spread throughout the Borough,
but by September, it had died down to a low level. In November, however, it
flared up again with renewed violence and in the second week in November, 94
cases were notified in one week. By the end of the year however, the epidemic
seemed finally at an end.
Table E(l) shows that though there were no deaths, 28 of the 686
children notified as suffering from measles had to be removed to hospital and
very nearly half of the cases occurred in children under five. If the
American vaccine against measles now under trial proves safe and reliable, it
should certainly be made available to parents, whose children are in the second
year of life.
WHOOPING COUGH
The number of cases notified was only a quarter of that for 1957.
In a community not given special protection, one expects an epidemic of whooping
cough roughly every two years, the 96 cases notified in 1957 represent a modified
epidemic. I am hopeful that the 1959 level of incidence will be lower
than that of 1957. Perhaps there will be 50 to 60 cases.
DYSENTERY
As usual, most of the cases were of Sonne Dysentery. The number of
cases were not large and the disease was seen as scattered cases and a number
of small outbreaks.
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