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Typhoid and Para-Typhoid Fever.
No cases were notified during 1960.
Whooping Cough.
Thirty-nine cases were notified during the year, as against 50
cases recorded in 1959. Only one case was admitted to hospital,
the remainder being home nursed.
No deaths from this disease were recorded in the area during
1960.
The County Medical Officer informs me that 1,396 children
resident in the Urban District were immunised against this disease
during 1960.
Other Infectious Diseases.
In addition to those previously mentioned, notifications were
received as under:—
Erysipelas—3 cases, two of which were admitted to hospital.
Puerperal Pyrexia—12 cases (10 were institutionally treated and two home
nursed).