Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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Year | Enteric Fever ('Including Para-typhoid) | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Puerperal Pyrexia | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Measles | Whooping Cough | Acute Infective Encephalitis | Poliomyelitis |
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Scarlet Fever.
Fifty-one cases of mild scarlet fever were notified,
forty-seven of which were of school age. No deaths occurred and
no "return" cases. Thirty-three of the cases notified were removed
to an infectious diseases hospital for treatment and the remainder
were treated at home.
Diphtheria
No cases of diphtheria were notified, for the third successive
year.
Intensive work was continued to immunise the school and preschool
population against diphtheria, and the table on the following
page shows the stage reached by the end of 1950. It is intended to
continue with a vigorous immunisation campaign to prevent any possible
diminishing of public interest in this service, occasioned by three
years freedom from the disease,and the complacency which may result.
immunisation is just as necessary in the absence of diphtheria as
when it occurs.