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Romford 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]

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5. Housing Repairs and. Rents Act, 1954.
During the year 35 applications were received for Certificates
of Disrepair under the above Act, and 32 Certificates were issued,
making a total of 86 Certificates issued since October, 1954.
48 applications were also received for the Revocation of
Certificates, and in 45 cases the Certificates were revoked when the
repairs had been completed satisfactorily.
5. PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
(i) Notifiable Diseases.
As, is usual, I have not recorded the notifications where the
diagnosis has been altered after a period of observation, or after
investigation. When, however, the amended diagnosis has proved
to be another type of infection which is notifiable, the case has been
appropriately recorded. The amendments are sent to the RegistrarGeneral
at the end of each quarter.
(a) Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis.
In contrast to last year, Poliomyelitis was more in evidence,
generally, throughout the Country, and this was reflected in a correspondingly
larger number of cases in Romford.
During 1955, 4 cases were notified in the earlier part of the
year, but it was not until the beginning of August and onwards
that the bulk of the cases occurred, and it was during this period
that we had 13 cases with varying degrees of paralysis, and 16 of
the non-paralytic variety. One of the patients, unfortunately, died.
(b) Acute Infective Hepatitis.
This condition is still notifiable for research purposes, throughout
the Eastern Region. Altogether, there were 28 notifications.
(c) Diphtheria.
This year one case of Diphtheria was reported. No organism
was isolated, but the diagnosis was based on palatal paralysis.
The following statistics relate to the state of Immunisation at
31st December, 1955. In addition to the initial series of injections,
"booster" doses have been administered.

TABLE 15

Under 5 yrs.5-15 yrs
Number of children who had completed a full course of Immunisation at any time up to 31st December, 1955, and who were born between 31st December, 1940, and 31st December, 19554,98614,694