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Scarlet Fever.
There were 24, cases notified and no deaths from the disease.
Smallpox.
No cases of Smallpox were notified during the year and it was not
necessary to take action under the Public Health (Smallpox) Regulations,
1917.
Frequent notifications are received from Port and Airport authorities
of persons coming into the Borough who may have been in contact
with smallpox. Observation for the necessary period is kept on such
persons by officers of the Public Health Department.
The number of children successfully vaccinated or re-vaccinated
against smallpox at London County Council clinics, during the year,
was 724.
Tuberculosis.
The number of primary notifications of pulmonary tuberculosis
received was 110 compared with 135 last year, and the number of nonpulmonary
cases notified was 14 compared with nine the previous year.
The mortality rate for the year for pulmonary tuberculosis was 8 and
for non-pulmonary nil per 100,000 population, compared with 17 and
nil respectively for 1959. (For details of register and notifications
see page 73.)
The pulmonary tuberculosis mortality rate for the whole country is
68 per million persons compared with Stepney's rate of 85 per million.
Since 1950 the death rate for England and Wales has fallen by 79 per
cent, the comparable figure for Stepney being 84. per cent.
A graph showing notification rates and death rates of pulmonary
tuberculosis per 100,000 population over the past 25 years is given
opposite previous page.
Eighty-seven visits were paid by the Public Health Inspectors to
the homes of persons suffering from tuberculosis and appropriate action
taken where public health nuisances were found to exist.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations. 1925.
These Regulations provide that persons suffering from tuberculosis
of the respiratory tract shall not be employed in the handling of milk
or milk receptacles. Power is given to the Council to cause such
persons to discontinue their employment. It was not found necessary
during the year to take action under the Regulations.
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