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Chigwell Urban District Council
To the Chairman and Members of the
Chigwell Urban District Council
Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen,
I have pleasure in presenting to you the Annual Report,
including the report of the Senior Sanitary Inspector, for the
year ending 31st December, 1950.
In the statistical tables which follow, births and deaths
have been corrected for "inward" and "outward" transfers,
i.e. they refer only to persons who normally reside in the
district, and they include all births and deaths among them
wherever occurring. Infectious diseases, however, are allocated
to the district in which they arise, irrespective of the
place of normal residence of the patient. All rates and
figures include members of the armed forces stationed in
the area.
The health of the population remained satisfactory and
except for outbreaks of whooping cough and scarlet fever
of moderate severity, there were no epidemics. Measles
and poliomyelitis were considerably less prevalent than
in the previous year. There were only two deaths from infectious
diseases other than tuberculosis (meningitis 1,
whooping cough 1.)
It was particularly pleasing to note that despite the "polio
scare," the number of children immunised against diphtheria
did not fall, and once again no cases of this disease occured
in the District throughout the year. It was possible to effect
a marked increase in the number of reinforcing injections
to 5 year olds by personal propaganda to the parents during
1