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Notifications other than Tuberculosis
POLIOMYELITIS
No cases of Poliomyelitis has occurred during the year.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
There was a decrease in the number of cases of Puerperal Pyrexia, 39 cases
occurring compared with 92 in 1961.
Of the 39 cases 17 only were Hendon residents, the remainder being women from
other areas who entered the maternity hospital in the Borough for their confinement.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM
Two cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum were notified during the year, compared
with none in 1961
SCARLET FEVER
There was a decrease in the number of cases notified, 53 cases occurring
compared with 59 in 1961
MEASLES
During the course of this year, 138 cases of Measles were notified compared
with 2,215 in 1961. Measles tend to occur in epidemic form every two years. An
epidemic can be expected about Spring 1965.
WHOOPING COUGH
There were 14 cases of Whooping Cough notified as compared with 25 in 1961.
SONNE DYSENTERY
There was a decrease in the number of cases notified - 13 compared with 37
in 1961. The disease is usually mild in character.
TYPHOID FEVER
There was one case of Typhoid Fever notified in Hendon. The patient was a
school-girl who had recently returned from a holiday in Israel and North Africa.
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