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Hornchurch 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]

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40
SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.

Table: Infectious and Other Notifiable Diseases. 1961.

Infectious and Other Notifiable Diseases. 1961.

DiseaseTotal cases notified.No. of cases hospitalised.
Dysentery141
Encephalitis (post infectious)22
Erysipelas101
Food Poisoning262
Infective Hepatitis9131
Malaria (contracted abroad)11
Measles3,11925
Ophthalmia Neonatorum10
Paratyphoid Fever11
Pneumonia136
Poliomyelitis (paralytic)11
Puerperal Pyrexia21
Scarlet Fever154
Whooping Cough372

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Measles had an epidemic year. Fortunately the mortality from this
disease is now, in the light of modern progress, becoming relatively
negligible.
Dysentery showed a markedly decreased incidence. Food Poisoning
cases rose from 13 to 26. Infective Hepatitis (Catarrhal Jaundice)
incidence figures increased from 33 to 91. One case of Poliomyelitis
occured in 1961.
Food Poisoning.
Although some 26 cases were notified they arose largely sporadically
and no substantial outbreak occurred.
In the cases for which a cause could be ascertained Salmonella
typhi-murium was the organism recovered.
International Certificates of Vaccination or Inoculation.
570 certificates were stamped during the year.
Immunisation and Vaccination Statistics.
I am indebted to Dr. R. D. Pearce, Area Medical Officer, for the
following information concerning immunisation and vaccination statistics
applicable to the Urban District for the year 1961-
Diphtheria Immunisation:
Completed primary immunisations 1,903
Boost injections 2,119
Whooping Cough Immunisation:
Completed primary immunisations 1,488
Boost injections 140