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SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF. AND CONTROL OVER.
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
The following infectious diseases are notifiable to
the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough:-
Scarlet Fever
Whooping Cough
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)
Measles (excluding Rubella)
Acute Pneumonia (primary or influenzal)
Meningococcal Infection
Acute Poliomyelitis - paralytic
" " - non-paralytic
Acute Encephalitis - infective
" " - post infectious
Dysentery
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Puerperal Pyrexia
Smallpox
Para-typhoid Fevers
Enteric or Typhoid Fever (excluding Paratyphoid)
Food Poisoning
Erysipelas
Chickenpox
Malaria
Cholera
Plague
Typhus Fever
Relapsing Fever
Tuberculosis
(x Acute Poliomyelitis includes Acute Polioencephalitis)
In 1950 a total of 272 notifications of infectious disease
was received, compared with 699 in 1949. This decrease is due
chiefly to the drop in the number of cases of measles, but a
general improvement over last year is apparent in respect of
all notifiable diseases with the exception of Non-Pulmonary
Tuberculosis, which shows 11 cases notified as against 6 for
the previous year.
The following table gives an analysis of the cases into
age groups.