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SECTION Go - PREVALENCE OF. AMD CONTROL
OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
During the year there were 148 cases of infectious disease notified
compared with 762 in 1959, and 306 in 1958. The decrease was due mainly to a
drop in the number of notifications of measles.
The following infectious diseases are notifiable to the Medical Officer
of Health of the Boroughs-
Smallpox
Cholera
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)
Erysipelas
Scarlet Fever
Typhus
Enteric or Typhoid Fever
Relapsing Fever
Tuberculosis (all forms)
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Malaria
Dysentery
Acute Primary Pneumonia
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
Puerperal Pyrexia
Measles
Whooping Cough
Meningococcal Infection
Acute Poliomyelitis - Paralytic
Acute Poliomyelitis - Non-Paralytic
Acute Encephalitis - Infective
Acute Encephalitis - Post Infectious
Food Poisoning
Plague
Para-typhoid Fevers
Anthrax.
SMALLPOX
There were no cases notified in Wimbledon during 1960, but this disease
is still prevalent in some parts of the world and constant vigilance has to be
maintained. From time to time notice is received of persons arriving in this
country who have been in contact with smallpox. All such contacts are kept
under surveillance until the possibility of developing the disease has
disappeared.
In the Ministry of Health's memorandum on vaccination against smallpox, it
is recommended that all Public Health Officers likely to deal at short notice
with cases of smallpox shall be regularly re-vaccinated at not more than yearly
intervals. During the year ten members of the Public Health Department staff,
including clerical staff, were vaccinated or re-vaccinated.
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