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Barnet 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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PREVALENCE OP, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The table on the next page shews the number of Notifications to the Sanitary Authority during the year, of each disease specified in the Public Health Act 1936, and the various Infectious Disease Regulations, and the number of cases removed to Hospital.
| DISEASE | NOTIFIED | REMOVED TO HOSPITAL |
|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 11 | Nil |
| Whooping Cough | 12 | 1 |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | Nil | Nil |
| Measles | 562 | 1 |
| Acute Pneumonia | 7 | Nil |
| Meningococcal Infection | Nil | Nil |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | Nil | Nil |
| Acute Encephalitis | 1 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 142 | 5 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Nil | Nil |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 28 | 28 |
| Smallpox | Nil | Nil |
| Malaria | Nil | Nil |
| Typhoid and Enteric Fevers | Nil | Nil |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | Nil |
| Scabies | 1 | Nil |
| Tuberculosis | 5 | 4 |
| TOTALS | 771 | 41 |
AGE INCIDENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| DISEASE | NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YEARS OF AGE | |||||||||||||
| 0- | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5– | 10- | 15- | 25- | 45- | 65- | 75- | Total | |
| Scarlet Fever | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11 |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 12 |
| Measles | 11 | 31 | 73 | 68 | 84 | 271 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 562 |
| Acute Pneumonia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Acute Encephalitis | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Dysentery | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 73 | 18 | 5 | 22 | 5 | – | – | 142 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12 | 16 | – | – | – | 28 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Scabies | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| TOTALS | 17 | 36 | 78 | 74 | 89 | 357 | 37 | 23 | 41 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 766 |
The cases normally resident outside the district notified from the Barnet
General Hospital and Victoria Maternity Hospital., which are included in these
tables, are as follows:-
Dysentery 3; Puerperal Pyrexia 27; Paratyphoid 1.
The high number of notifications of Dysentery relates to the outbreak of
Sonnei Dysentery at the Whitings Hill School. By the normal meana of
notifications and checking on family contacts we had reached a total of