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Marriages
The Registrar General reports that the provisional figure for the number of
marriages solemnised in the London Borough of Enfield during the year 1966,
was 2,207.
(See Statistical Tables 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.)
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Under Section 144 of the Public Health Act, 1936, and Regulations thereunder,
the following diseases are notifiable by medical practitioners to the Medical Officer
of Health:—
Scarlet fever, erysipelas, diphtheria and membranous croup, smallpox, enteric
fever, typhus fever, relapsing fever, cholera, acute poliomyelitis, acute encephalitis,
meningococcal infection, measles, whooping cough, ophthalmia neonatorum, puerperal
pyrexia, malaria, dysentery, acute primary pneumonia, acute influenzal pneumonia,
anthrax, tuberculosis, leprosy, food poisoning (Food and Drugs Act, 1955)
and plague (L.G.B. Order 1900).
Provisions in relation to the control of infectious diseases by local authorities
are contained in Sections 145 to 180 of the Public Health Act, 1936, as amended
by both the National Health Service Act, 1946, and the Public Health Act, 1961.
Special provisions in relation to food poisoning are contained in the Food and
Drugs Act, 1955.
Further provisions are contained in Regulations made under these various
Acts.
The most prevalent infectious disease during the year was again measles, which
made up nearly 80% of notifications received. In recent years the biennial periodicity
of prevalence of this disease has become blurred by the winter epidemic carrying
over from one year to the next.
Compared with last year the number of cases of dysentery is considerably
down.
Once again it is pleasing to report the absence of the former common infections
such as diphtheria, poliomyelitis and enteric fever.
Seventy-three cases of respiratory tuberculosis and 16 cases of tuberculosis of
other organs, including genito-urinary tract, lymph glands and meninges were
notified. There were eight deaths from the disease. The six deaths from respiratory
tuberculosis and the two deaths from tuberculosis of other organs all occurred
in persons over the age of 45 years, three being persons over 75 years of age.
Of all notified cases of infectious disease, 1,241 were school children, and
head teachers informed us of 509 children absent from school due to infectious or
suspected infectious disease. A number of these cases notified by head teachers
were pupils suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting.
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