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The Council have continued to grant to the North London
Branch of the Infantile Paralysis Fellowship the use of the Squires
Lane Bath on alternate Sundays for "old" cases of Poliomyelitis.
The cases are collected from a wide area by ambulances and cars
and they are assisted in changing and also in the water by voluntary
helpers.
All cases are certified by a doctor to be free from infection.
Measles
The number of notifications was 1,087 compared with 99 in
1954. This is the highest number of notifications recorded since
the disease was made notifiable by the Regulations of 1939'. There
were no deaths.
Whooping Cough
The notifications numbered 18 in 1955 which is the lowest
figure for some years. There were no deaths.
During the year, 7 children were immunised by Medical Officers
of the Local Health Authority.
Pneumonia
Forty-seven cases were notified in 1955 and there were 23 deaths,
19 of which were persons of 65 years of age and over.
Malaria
No case of Malaria was notified in 1955.
Puerperal Pyrexia
The total number of cases notified during the year was 38; 37
occurred at the North Middlesex Hospital Annexe in The Bishop's
Avenue, and one at home.
Food Poisoning
Fifteen cases of food poisoning were notified during the year.
Four were single cases, three of which were due to Salmonella
Typhi-murium, the agent for the fourth remaining unidentified.
The other 11 cases notified concerned an outbreak in a school
and were due to a food poisoning organism known as Clostridium
Welchii. In all, 230 boys, 11 teachers and 7 kitchen staff were
affected in the outbreak. The symptoms were mainly nausea,
abdominal distension, colic and diarrhoea. Most cases were mild with
the symptoms clearing up in 12 hours, although in one case they
lasted 36 hours.
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