View report page

28
VACCINATION
696 persons received primary vaccination and 87 re-vaccination.
POLIOMYELITIS AND ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS.
During the course of the year twenty cases of poliomyelitis
occurred in the Borough. Of these, 8 were boys aged from 1 year
to 15 years, 7 were girls aged 3 years to 13 years, 1 male aged 21
years and 4 females aged 17, 22, 23 and 33 years.
Unfortunately 3 adult cases proved rapidly fatal. Six of the
cases were non-paralytic and a follow-up of the remaining cases
shows that most of them made good recoveries, only one school
child requiring admission to a school for physically handicapped
children.
FOOD POISONING.
Nine cases of food poisoning were notified during the year, all
of which were single cases.
Of the 9 cases, 8 were due to " Salmonella Typhi-murium,"
and in the remaining case no agent was identified.
In addition to the nine notified cases, information was received
regarding the sudden illness of several people on a coach trip from
Enfield to the seaside. The symptoms and signs were those of
acute food poisoning and several members of the party were admitted
to Hospital at the seaside town and detained overnight.
Cooked ham consumed en route in the form of sandwiches
was suspected and Staphylococcus pyogenes, phage typed as
47/53/54/73/77, was isolated from a sample of ham from the suspected
sandwiches and also from the nasal swabs of two of the
people who had prepared the sandwiches the previous day.
Information was also received regarding the sudden illness of
several factory workers who had consumed, in the factory canteen,
a meal containing salt beef. The symptoms and signs were those
of acute food poisoning, and Clostridium Welchii type 3 was isolated
from the faeces of three of those affected, and also from a sample