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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Sutton 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]
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PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
As previously stated there were no serious epidemics of infectious
disease during the period under review. Mild cases of sonne1 dysentery continue
to occur regularly in small local outbreaks mainly associated with schools
where spread occurs with ease. Each case notified involves extensive
bacteriological investigation of contacts and supervision until freedom from
infection is established. The most effective preventive measures for this
disease, which has considerable nuisance value, are early notification of all
occurrences and scrupulous observance of the rules of good hygiene at all times,
particularly in regard to hand-washing before meals or preparation of food
and after the use of the toilet.
No case of diphtheria or poliomyelitis was notified.
The origin of the one confirmed case of paratyphoid fever was
a holiday spent in Corfu.
(a) Infectious Diseases notified during the period 1st April-31st December, 1965.
| Disease | Under 5 | 5-14 | 15-44 | 45 - 64 | 65 or over | Age Unknown | TOTAL | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Dysentery | 14 | 6 | 28 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 50 | 31 | ||||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Food Poisoning | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Measles | 169 | 166 | 91 | 117 | 4 | 3 | 264 | 286 | ||||||
| Meningcococcal Meningitis | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 87 | 87 | ||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 12 | 13 | 33 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 47 | 39 | ||||||
| Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) | 1 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 12 | |||||
| Paratyphoid | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 11 | ||||||