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Meningococcal Meningitis
There were two cases of this disease and one of virus meningitis,
Food Poisoning
Four notifications of food poisoning were received during the year none
of these were confirmed as being caused by organisms in food
Dysentery
Four notifications of dysentery were received Three were confirmed as
having been caused by Shigella Sonnei the other was found not to be dysentery
Typhoid
There were no cases of this disease during 1964 Two contacts of typhoid
fever and one of paratyphoid arriving in this country from abroad were visited
No positive infection developed
In the Spring, children who had travelled to Southern Spain in a School
Party had to be surveyed as possible contacts because of an outbreak of typhoid
there No cases occurred
During the Summer there was an outbreak of typhoid fever in Scotland It
was attributed to imported corned beef and it was necessary to prevent any likely
source of infection from being distributed and to keep watch for contacts enter
ing the Borough No suspects were discovered and no cases occurred and al
though enquiries were made about vaccination it was not considered to be neces
sary that this should be done on any large scale
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
There were no notifications of this disease
Malaria
One case of malaria was notified On investigation this appeared not to
have been contracted in this country but in Africa
Infective Hepatitis
In the Spring of the year six cases of infective hepatitis three of them
in one household occurred Although this disease has been giving some concern
in various parts of the country no outbreak occurred at the time and no other
cases showed up during the year
Influenza
Influenza was not considerable at any time in 1964 However there was one
death from this cause notified to the Department
Tuberculosis
The number of notifications of tuberculosis in 1964 was 40 as compared with
47 in the previous year the pulmonary cases amounting to 36 and the non
pulmonary to 4 The number of deaths from this disease was 2 as compared with
4 in 1963 5 in 1962 and 1 in 1961 One of the two persons who died from pul
monary tuberculosis had never been notified as such, his disease only being
discovered on his terminal admission to hospital
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