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Section F.— PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
Diphtheria.
One confirmed case of Diphtheria was notified to the Health
Department in 1950. This was very mild in character and
occurred in a seven-year-old child who, although having been
immunised in infancy, had not received a reinforcing dose at age
5 years. Recovery was rapid and uneventful.
Propaganda for immunisation against Diphtheria was continued
during the year. The clinic facilities for immunisation are detailed
on page 7. In addition, arrangements are made for school children
to be immunised at school.
Number of children immunised during the year :—
Primary immunisations—Under 5 years 561
„ „ —5 to 15 years 167
Total 728
Number of children receiving secondary or reinforcing
injections during the year 407
Scarlet Fever.
Notifications of 62 cases were received during the year under
review. This was a decrease of 43 on the figure for 1949. As in
many years past, the fever was of a very mild character.
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950
Cases notified 74 69 78 105 62
Percentage removed to hospital 64 61 52 46 65
Measles.
Measles declined very appreciably in 1950, the number of cases,
267, being 47% less than in 1949. Only 3 cases needed admission
to hospital.
A circular letter to the general practitioners in the Borough
was sent by the Health Department informing them that Irradiated
Adult Serum and Immune Serum Globulin was available, on application
to the Public Health Laboratory at Colindale, for the treatment
of cases and the protection of contacts.
Whooping Cough.
Here also a considerable reduction took place, 134 cases being
notified, which was 40 less than the previous year. Five cases were
admitted to hospital.
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