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PREVALENCE AN D CONTROL OF
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in the
Borough:-
Anthrax, Cholera, Diphtheria, Dysentery,
Encephalitis (Acute), Erysipelas, Enteric Fever,
Food Poisoning, 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, 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.
A total of 3,352 cases of infectious diseases was notified
during the year, being an increase of 3,012 on the previous year.
175 cases were removed to hospital.
The increase In the incidence of infectious disease in the
Borough was largely due to the fact that there were 3,057 cases of
Measles notified during 1961, compared with 19 in the previous year.
POLIOMYELITIS
The one confirmed case of Poliomyelitis related to a boy aged
four years, who was immediately removed to hospital on being suspected.
He was confirmed as a case of Paralytic Poliomyelitis.
Six other suspected cases were also treated in hospital, but
all proved not to be Poliomyelitis, the revised diagnoses being
Meningitis (two cases); Tonsillitis, Influenza, Measles, and Stomach
pains.
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