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Prom the table set out above the following facts emerge:-
1. Scarlet Fever notifications totalled 14 in 1962, a drop of 7
on the 1961 figures.
2. It is now 15 years since the last case of diphtheria was notified
in the Borough and 23 years since this was a cause of death.
Outbreaks of diphtheria still occur from time to time in different
parts of England and Wales but if we can succeed in keeping our
immunisation rate at its present very high level we should certainly
avoid any danger of such an outbreak in Wood Green. The
fact that 92.8% of infants under 2 years of age are protected
against diphtheria is very gratifying. The great majority of
these immunisations are combined in the triple antigen giving
protection against whooping cough and tetanus as well.
3. Measles notifications fell from 763 in 1961 to 232 this year.
The type of infection was again very mild.
4. Pertussis notifications were 16 this year- although 3 more
than last year, still a very satisfactory figure.
Although it is difficult in any one Borough to show statistically
the effect of whooping cough vaccination, recently published
figures are of great interest. These show that for England and
Wales in 1960 and 1961 the total deaths from whooping cough were
64, and of these 64 deaths only 1 occurred in a completely
vaccinated child - a child aged 2 years who suffered from epilepsy.
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