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Notifications other than Tuberculosis
Poliomyelitis
No cases of Poliomyelitis were notified during the year. The disease was first
made notifiable in 1950 and this is the first year in which no case was notified. The
immunisation campaign of the Ministry of Health has, no doubt, played an important
part in reducing the number of cases, together with the cool and wet summer experienced
in 1960,
Puerperal Pyrexia
There was a decrease in the number of cases of Puerperal Pyrexia, 105 cases
occurring compared with 126 in 1959.
Of the 105 cases 37 only were Kendon residents, the remainder being women from
other areas who entered the maternity hospital in the Borough for their confinements.
Notification in respect of these cases has to be accepted by the Borough of Hendon
and not by the Authority within whose area the patient is normally resident. In
consequence the rate for Hendon is high. That for the year I960 is 52-6 per 1,000
total (live and still) births. If the figure for the Hendon residents only is taken,
the rate is 18-54 per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Three cases were notified compared with none in 1959,
Scarlet Fever
There was a decrease in the number of cases notified, 114 cases occurring compared
with 151 in 1959. The disease continued to be mild in character.
Illeasles
During the course of this year, 78 cases of measles were notified compared with
1,283 in 1959. Measles tend to occur in epidemic form every two years. An epidemic
can be expected about Spring 1961.
Whooping Cough
There was an increase in the number of the cases notified during the year, 153
compared with 32 in 1959.
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