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SECTION G. - PREVALENCE OF. AND CONTROL
OVER. INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
During the year there were 163 cases of infectious disease notified
compared with 1,064 in 1961, and 148 in 1960. 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 Borough:-
Smallpox
Cholera
Diphtheria (including Membranous Group)
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 tcwards
the end of December, 1961 and the early part of January, 1962 a number of
Pakistan immigrants who entered this country through London Airport later
developed smallpox. Arising from these importations outbreaks of anallpox
occurred in various parts of England and Wales on a scale unknown in this country
in recent years.
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