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The drop in immunisation of children against diphtheria was considerable,
from 823 primary immunisations in 1961 to 501 in 1962,, and from 886 reinforcing
injections in 1961 to 492 in 1962.
Food Poisoning
Five notifications of food poisoning were received during the year. Of
these, 2 cases were subsequently not confirmed as food poisoning. Of the remaining
three cases, one was established as food poisoning due to the organism
Salmonella Typhi-murium,, and the other two cases due to Salmonella organisms,
types Bredeney and Newport respectively.
Dysentery
Two notifications of dysentery were received. Both were confirmed as
having been caused by Shigella Sonnei No contacts were affected.
Influenza
Influenza was not a major problem in 1962, although in the early part of
the year some cases occurred, and three deaths from this disease or its complications
were recorded
Typhoid
There was one case of typhoid fever during 1962. The case was an adult
male who had been visiting Las Palmas He was treated in hospital. Contacts
were followed up and found to have no infection, In March a contact of a passenger
on a ship arriving in this country from Karachi who had contracted typhoid
fever was notified, but no infection developed.
Tuberculosis
The number of notifications of tuberculosis in 1962 was 51 as compared with
47 in the previous year, the pulmonary cases amounting to 47 and the nonpulmonary
to 4. The number of deaths from this disease was five as compared
with one in 1961, one in 1960, two in 1959, seven in 1958, four in 1957, six in
1956 and seven in 1955.
The figure of 51 notifications includes 22 inward transfers i.e. cases
notified because they had removed into the Borough but who had previously con-'
tracted the disease elsewhere. This leaves a total of 29 new cases of tuberculosis
occurring within the borough compared with the figure of 32 new cases
in 1961,
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