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Hornchurch 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]
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SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
Infectious and Other Notifiable Diseases, 1963.
Disease
Total cases
notified
No. of cases
hospitalised
Dysentery
25
4
Erysipelas
7
1
Food Poisoning
13
0
Infective Hepatitis
4
0
Measles
1,674
3
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
2
0
Paratyphoid Fever
1
1
Pneumonia
3
1
Puerperal Pyrexia
2
0
Scarlet Fever
74
1
Whooping Cough
135
17
International Certificates of Vaccination or Inoculation.
784 certificates were stamped during the year. The number for the
previous year was 3,756.
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 1963:-
Triple, Diphtherial Whooping Cough/Tetanus Immunisation:
Completed primary immunisations 2,381
Boost injections 855
Diphtheria/Tetanus Immunisation:
Completed primary immunisations 252
Boost injections 365
Diphtheria Immunisation:
Completed primary immunisations 28
Boost injections 890
Whooping Cough Immunisation:
Completed primary immunisations 36
Boost injections 1
Tetanus Immunisation:
Completed primary immunisations 1,208
Boost injections 764
Poliomyelitis Vaccination (Salk):
Completed 2 primary injections 299
Boost injections 450
Fourth injections 221
Poliomyelitis Vaccination (Oral):
Completed three doses 2,558