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Of 31 children from whom rectal swabs were taken for
bacteriological examination, four school children and three
pre-school home contacts were found to have Shigella Sonnei in
their stools.
Early in this outbreak the finger of suspicion pointed to a girl
who had been absent on two previous occasions—from 25th to
30th November, and again from 2nd to 7th December—with vague
" tummy trouble When she was found to be suffering from
Sonn6 dysentery, and excluded from school along with her classmates
whom she probably infected, there was a progressive
improvement in attendance, culminating in the good attendance
one expects at the school Christmas Party.

These figures show that no Leyton resident has died from
diphtheria during the last five years, and that during the whole of
that period only one person has been notified to be suffering from
the disease. The last case notified (in 1951) was a very mild
infection in a girl who had never been immunised.
Information regarding immunisation against diphtheria is to
be found on page 133.
ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS, INFECTIVE.
No cases were notified.
ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS, POST INFECTIOUS.
No cases were notified.
ERYSIPELAS.
Of the 48 cases notified, three were admitted to hospital.