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Richmond upon Thames 1965

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond upon Thames]

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INFECTIOUS DISEASE

The pattern of incidence of notifiable diseases followed the experience of previous years. For ease of comparison over the year the figures have been extracted from the various areas which now comprise the new borough and are given below:

Disease.19651964
Scarlet Fever6945
Acute Pneumonia4719
Whooping Cough1058
Measles1992234
Puerperal Pyrexia34
Dysentery174
Erysipelas97
Food Poisoning68

Scarlet Fever.
Sixty-nine cases were notified; a fairly substantial rise compared with previous
years.
1962 45
1963 43
1964 45
1965 69
Whooping Cough.
There was a marked reduction in the number of cases notified :
1962 4
1963 69
1964 58
1965 10

Measles.

This was a "measles" year. There were 1992 cases notified :

1959195719631885
1960571964234
1961242219651992
1962112

As in the past the highest incidence of the disease occurred during the first quarter of the year reducing to the end of the year. The distribution of cases during each quarter of the year is shown below:

M.F.Total
1st January— 31st March6506001250
1st April—30th June271282553
1st July — 30th September6059119
1st October—31st December294170
Total10109821992