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PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in
the Borough
Anthrax, Cholera, Diphtheria, Dysentery,
Encephalitis (Acute), Erysipelas, Enteric Fever,
Food Poisoning, Glanders, Hydrophobia, Leprosy,
Malaria, Measles, Membranous Croup, Meningococcal
Infection,Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Pneumonia (Acute
Primary), Pneumonia (Acute Influenzal), Poliomyelitis,
Polio-encephalitis, Plague, Puerperal Pyrexia,
Relapsing Fever, Scabies, Scarlet Fever (or Scarlatina),
Smallpox, Tuberculosis (all forms), Typhoid Fever
(including Paratyphoid), Typhus Fever, Whooping Cough,
and Zymotic Enteritis.
Cases of infectious disease notified to the Department
are immediately visited by the Public Health Inspectors
and disinfection is carried out wherever applicable. Where
the patient is nursed at home, Public Health Inspectors
visit to see that home isolation is carried out satisfactorily,
and at the end of the infectious period, where
necessary, the bedding belonging to the patient is removed
for treatment at the Disinfecting Station and the rooms
sealed and fumigated.
The total number of notifiable infectious diseases
occurring in the Borough was 2,333 (compared with 864 in
the previous year), of which 1,801 were notifications of
measles.
DIPHTHERIA
Once again there were no confirmed cases of diphtheria
in the Borough.
POLIOMYELITIS
The only case of confirmed poliomyelitis, which was
non-paralytic, concerned a four-year old girl who had not
been immunised. Nine other notifications of suspected
cases were received. All patients were admitted to
hospital for observation and revised diagnoses were:
Pneumonia 2; Septicemia 2; Influenza; Respiratory
Infection; Tonsillitis; Nervous Disability; and Pyrexia
of unknown origin.
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