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ceived, together with age groups. The diagnosis was not
confirmed in 11 of the above notifications.
A. list of the diseases notifiable in the County of
London is shown in Table 15 on page 74.
Diphtheria.
Five notifications were received, but the diagnosis was
not confirmed in 4 of the cases. The number of children
immunised at L.C.C. clinics was 1,858, and of these 1,386
were under five years of age. 1,239 children were given a
reinforcing injection.
Referring to the publicity campaign on Diphtheria
prophylaxis for 1954/5 the Minister of Health remarked on
the fall of the incidence of the disease. Notifications
and deaths in England and Wales have fallen from 18,596 and
722, respectively, in 1945 to 182 and 9 in 1954. The
Minister warned against any relaxation of efforts made to
maintain immunisation against diphtheria at the highest
possible level.
Seventy-two swabs were forwarded by general practitioners
to the Mile End Group Laboratory, where bacteriological
examinations are carried out on behalf of the Borough
Council.
Dysentery.
118 notifications of Sonne dysentery were received
during the year, as compared with 68 the previous year.
Erysipelas.
During the year 11 notifications were received as compared
with 10 last year.
Food Poisoning.
Twenty-five individual cases of suspected food poisoning
were notified. In 5 cases a Salmonella organism was
isolated from the patients' stools, and in no case was the
source of infection traced to any particular article of food.
Malaria.
Two cases of induced malaria were notified during the
year.
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