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Pneumonia, Malaria and Dysentery.
Pneumonia. There were 44 cases of pneumonia notified as
compared with 72 for the previous year. The number of
deaths recorded from this disease was 73.
Malaria. No case of malaria was notified during the year.
Dysentery. No case of dysentery was notified during the year.
Acute Poliomyelitis, Acute Polio-encephalitis.
No cases of acute poliomyelitis or acute polioencephalitis
were notified during the year.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.

Puerperal Pyrexia.
Ten cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified during the
year. Three were treated in the West Middlesex Hospital.
Enteric fever.
Two cases of paratyphoid were notified, both of which
were admitted to hospital. There was no apparent connection
between each, and no evidence suggesting milk or water
supplies as source of infection.
Typhoid Immunization. In November 1940 facilities were
provided at the school clinics for immunization against Typhoid
for those members of the public desiring to avail themselves
thereof. At the end of the year 113 people had been
immunized. The total attendances at the clinics numbered 259.
Cerebro-spinal fever.
Sixteen cases of cerebro-spinal fever were notified during
the year-the first notifications in the Borough since amalgamation.
There were five deaths.
The incidence for the country as a whole was high. The
increase may be attributable to war-time conditions, since the
disease is transmitted by droplet infection and is associated
with bad ventilation, overcrowding etc.
Measles and Whooping Cough.
Measles and Whooping Cough became compulsorily notifiable
in October 1939. During the period under review there was a
sharp rise in the number of cases of measles notified in
September the peak being reached in October. The total number
of cases for the year was 956. Two deaths were recorded from
this disease, giving a death rate of 0.02 per 1,000 of the
population-the same as that for England and Wales.
There were 46 cases of whooping cough, and no deaths.
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