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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, the Inspectors see that home
isolation continues 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 incidence of infectious disease in the Borough was
very low during 1960 and gives rise for general satisfaction.
No confirmed cases of diphtheria or poliomyelitis were
reported. The total number of notifiable diseases occurring
in the Borough was only 440, compared with 2,333 in the previous
year. This drop was accounted for mainly by the small number
of measles notifications received (only 19); this number being
the lowest in the Borough on record.
POLIOMYELITIS
Only one case was notified during the year, and this
proved not to be poliomyelitis.
Four other patients were removed to hospital as suspected
cases of poliomyelitis, the revised diagnoses being Meningitis
(3 cases), and Bell's Palsy.
DIPHTHERIA
No confirmed case of Diphtheria occurred in the Borough.
Three patients admitted to hospital as suspected cases were
found to be suffering, from Bronchitis, Glandular Fever, and
Tonsilitis.
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