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Notifications other than Tuberculosis
POLIOMYELITIS
There was one case of Non-Paralytic Poliomyelitis notified during the year. The
patient a girl aged 10 had been vaccinated in South Africa and was probably infected
during a holiday in West Germany.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
There was a decrease in the number of cases of Puerperal Pyrexia, 92 cases
occurring compared with 105 in 1960.
Of the 92 cases 50 only were Hendon residents, the remainder being women from
other areas who entered the maternity hospital in the Borough for their confinement.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM
No cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum were notified during the year.
SCARLET FEVER
There was a decrease in the number of cases notified, 59 cases occurring
compared with 114 in 1960.
MEASLES
During the course of this year, 2,215 cases of Measles were notified compared
with 78 in 1960. Measles tend to occur in epidemic form every two years. An
epidemic can be expected about Spring 1963.
WHOOPING COUGH
There were 25 cases of Whooping Cough notified as compared with 153 in 1960.
The condition is most dangerous in young babies, and protection should be provided
before the child is six months old.
SONNE DYSENTERY
There was a decrease in the number of cases notified - 37 compared with 44
in 1960. The disease is usually mild in character and commonly affects children
attending infant school.
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