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Enfield 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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23
HOSPITAL FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES
During the year, the following cases were admitted from Enfield
to South Lodge Hospital.
Glandular fever 6
Dysentery 4
Measles 7
Scarlet Fever 8
Gastro-enteritis 9
Upper Respiratory Infection 4
Pneumonia 5
Erysipelas 2
Chickenpox 2
Whooping Cough 6
B.Coli Infection 3
Para Typhoid Fever 1
Salmonella typhi murium 3
Others 31
91
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION
1,570 children were immunised for the first time and 2,460
received reinforcing doses.
DIPHTHERIA
For the fifteenth year in succession no case of Diphtheria has
occurred in the Borough.
WHOOPING COUGH IMMUNISATION
1,398 children were immunised for the first time and 1,032
received reinforcing doses.
TETANUS IMMUNISATION
1,568 children were immunised for the first time and 1,330
received reinforcing doses.
POLIOMYELITIS IMMUNISATION
2,170 children were immunised for the first time and 1,318
received reinforcing doses.