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Havering 1967

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]

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Table: TABLE 43Notification of Infectious and other Notifiable Diseases During the Year 1967

TABLE 43

Notification of Infectious and other Notifiable Diseases During the Year 1967

DiseaseMaleFemaleTotal
Dysentery181937
Encephalitis (Infective)2—2
Erysipelas6511
Food Poisoning (or suspected Food Poisoning)971042 01
Infective Hepatitis261945
Measles143414212855
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2—2
Paratyphoid Fever—11
Pneumonia12921
Puerperal Pyrexia—22
Scarlet Fever12098218
Tuberculosis: Respiratory301040
Other112
Typhoid Fever1—1
Whooping Cough6666132

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Once again it is my pleasure to report that no cases of
Poliomyelitis, Diphtheria, Smallpox, Anthrax, Tuberculosis
of meninges and central nervous system were notified during
the year. I would again stress to all concerned the importance
of vaccination against Smallpox in early childhood. There can
be no guarantee of immunity merely on the grounds that this
disease is not endemic in this country at present. It only needs
a slight lessening of vigilance by health authorities and their
officers to cause the present satisfactory position to be reversed
with dire results.
There was a considerable reduction in the number of Tuberculosis
cases notified during the year, although unfortunately the
mortality from this disease remained the same, i.e. 7 (6 respiratory
1 non-respiratory).
There was also one death from whooping cough — a male of
5 weeks.
As was to be expected, the first quarter of the year was a
"carried forward" of the bi-annual "Measles Cycle", some
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