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Other noteworthy figures from Table IV are the drop in whooping cough
notifications, the lower incidence of pneumonia, and the excellent figures for
puerperal pyrexia and food poisoning. Less satisfactory is a figure showing
some rise in the scarlet fever incidence.
Typhoid
During July, 1954, when a few cases of typhoid fever had occurred in the
Borough of Fulham, we were notified that a case suffering from typhoid fever and
belonging to this Borough had been admitted to the infectious disease hospital
in that area This patient was so ill on admission to hospital, that it was
very difficult to obtain any information with regard to the possible source of
infection, and unfortunately she died without becoming really able to make
herself understood. Enquiries made from the immediate contacts of the case did
not elicit any further information, and the follow-up of contacts and the
bacteriological examination of specimens from them resulted in the information
that no carrier of this infection was numbered among them.
Poliomyelitis
4 notifications of poliomyelitis were received during the year and 3 cases
were confirmed as paralytic poliomyelitis. Up to date information regarding
these cases and those poliomyelitis cases noted in previous years as still showing
residual paralysis is as follows.
Case notified in 1949
This patient, now a girl of 8 years, still shows some residual paralysis
of right leg.
Cases notified in 1950:
CASE A - An adult male patient - condition stationary. Wears an instrument
to control his dropfoot, and suffers from some circulatory disturbance. He
carries out full-time work as a lorry driver and finds no difficulty in performing
his duties.
CASE B - An adult female patient - partial paralysis of left biceps
operation in 1953 gave good movement of elbow and forearm. Shoulder joint out of
action. Condition stationary, but patient is married and has been delivered
safely of a child weighing 7 lbs 1 oz. without any abnormality before, during,
or after the confinement.
CASE C - A boy now 13 years of age - paralysis right leg - still partial
paralysis with very little improvement during year.
Cases notified in 1951:
No paralytic poliomyelitis occurred in 1951.
Cases notified in 1952:
CASE D - Boy now aged 7 years - severe case - paralysis of both upper and
lower limbs. Slight weakness of right leg and limitation of muscular development
of calf, Some wasting of muscles of right thumb, but power good. Has
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