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Diphtheria Immunisation.—The numbers of completed inoculations
made during the year were:—Children under 5 years, 661; children
over 5 years but under 15 years, 1,390.
(c) Puerperal Pyrexia.—Three cases were notified, one of these
occurred in the district and was removed to the Waltham Joint Hospital,
and the other two were notified from hospitals in the Metropolitan area.
One death occurred.
(d) Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers.—Eight cases of paratyphoid
were notified as occurring in the district. Five were removed to the
Waltham Joint Hospital, two to a hospital outside the district, and one
occurred in an institution in the district, to which it had been brought from
the County Borough of East Ham. No deaths occurred.
(e) Dysentery.—No cases were notified.
(/) Cerebro-Spinal Fever.—Eight cases were notified as occurring
in the district. One was removed to the Waltham Joint Hospital and one
to a hospital outside the district. The other six cases occurred in an
institution in the district, to which they had been brought from the County
Borough of East Ham. One death occurred.
(g) Encephalitis Lethargica.—No cases were notified.
(h) Acute Anterio Poliomyelitis.—One case occurred in an institution
in the district, to which it had been brought from the County
Borough of East Ham.
Particulars of the incidence of notifiable diseases during 1941 are
contained in an accompanying table.
2. (a) Disinfection and Disinfestation.—The disinfection of bedding
and similar articles is done by the saturated steam process in a cylindrical
horizontal steel " thresh " disinfector; infected premises are sprayed with
formalin and fumigated by burning formalin tablets.
Number of rooms disinfected 215
Number of verminous rooms disinfested 52
Loads of bedding disinfected 219
Loads of bedding disinfected for Chigwell U.D.C. 5
Number of School classrooms disinfected 8
Under the provisions of Sections 83 and 84 Public Health Act, 1936,
the verminous articles of two houses were removed and destroyed, and the
premises disinfested.
(e) Tuberculosis.—Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925, and the Public Health Act, 1936, section 172. No
action was necessary with regard to persons suffering from pulmonary
tuberculosis employed in the milk trade.
3. Tuberculosis.—Particulars of new cases of tuberculosis and
mortality from the disease during 1941: —
46 Pulmonary and 15 non-Pulmonary cases were notified for
the first time during the year.