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SECTION G. - PRSVALENCE OF. AND CONTROL
OVER. INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
During the year there were 1,064 cases of infectious disease notified
compared with 148 in 1960, and 762 in 1959. The increase over 1960 was
almost entirely due to the high incidence of measles, 980 cases.
The following infectious diseases are notifiable to the Medical Officer
of Health of the Borough:-
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
No case of smallpox was notified in the Borough during the year, but all
Health Authorities were warned by the Minister of Health to be on the alert
following the diagnosis of smallpox in a man who arrived at London Airport on
25th December, 1961 from an aircraft which he boarded at Karachi.
This was the beginning of a number of cases of smallpox which were imported
into this country from Pakistan, and which resulted in outbreaks in various
parts of England and Wales on a scale unknown to this country in recent years.
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