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Disease Notifications Recived
Pneumonia 223
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 3
Typhoid Fever 1
Paratyphoid Fever 1
Puerperal Pyrexia 13
Meningococcal Infection 1
Poliomyelitis Paralytic 11
Poliomyelitis, Non-paralytic 8
Acute Encephalitis Infective 1
Acute Encephalitis, Post infectious
Measles 1,033
Whooping Cough 159
Dysentery 6
Food Poisoning 29
TOTAL 1,626
diphtheria
No case of diphtheria has been notified since 1951. Information regarding immunisation
against diphtheria is to be found on page 55.
dysentery
Only six cases were notified in 1957 compared to 49 cases in 1956. Five of the cases
were removed to hospital. None of the persons notified had the disease in a serious form.
food poisoning
Twenty nine persons were notified as suffering from food poisoning, compared with
forty-six in 1956. In only two cases was hospitalisation necessary.
There were three "outbreaks" involving nine cases and twenty "single" cases the agent
(salmonella organisms) being identified in five of them.
poliomyelitis
During the year nineteen notifications were received in respect of poliomyelitis.
Eleven cases were "paralytic" and eight "non-paralytic." Of these, five paralytic
cases were diagnosed in Whipps Cross Hospital in respect of patients residing outside the
Borough of Leyton.
Although these five cases are recorded in the Leyton return of notifications received,
no action is taken other than to notify the Medical Officer of Health of the Area in which
the patient is normally resident.
ANNUAL INCIDENCE SINCE 1947.
The following list shows the annual number of cases of poliomyelitis notified in the
Borough from 1947 1957 inclusive -
YEAR CASES YEAR CASES YEAR CASES YEAR CASES
1947 14 1950 14 1953 8 1956 3
1948 2 1951 - 1954 1 1957 19
1949 20 1952 12 1955 21
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