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Section F—Prevalence of and control
over infectious and other diseases.
As in previous years, figures are given in this Section not only
for the district as a whole, but for the district excluding Queen Mary's
Hospital. This L.C.C. Institution of some 1,100 beds is a closed
community with a large child population admitted exclusively from
London district. The separate statistics enables a truer picture to be
given of the incidence of infectious disease among the resident
population of the area.
Notification.
Under the Measles
two diseases became
additions, the list of
Smallpox
Cholera
Diphtheria
Membranous Croup
Erysipelas
Scarlatina or
Scarlet Fever
Measles
Whooping Cough
Tuberculosis
Dysentery
and Whooping Cough Regulations, 1939, these
notifiable on the 23rd October. With these
notifiable diseases is as follows:—
Acute Influenzal
Pneumonia
Acute Polio-
Encephalitis
Typhus Fever
Typhoid Fever
Enteric Fever
Relapsing or
Continued Fever
Cerebro-Spinal Fever
Acute Poliomyelitis
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum
Puerperal Pyrexia
Malaria
Acute Primary
Pneumonia
Acute Encephalitis
Lethargica
Food Poisoning
Smallpox.
For the sixth successive year no notifications of smallpox were
received.
Enteric Fever.
Following two years in each of which only one case of enteric
fever was reported, 1939 was entirely free from this infection.
Dysentery.
Twenty-four cases of dysentery were notified, of which 11 occurred
in Queen Mary's Hospital.
Of the other 13 among residents, 7 were Sonne infectious affecting
two families, 4 persons in one and 3 in the other. They made uneventful
recoveries after domiciliary treatment.
In 3 others the diagnosis was made on clinical evidence and the
nature of the infection was not determined bacteriologically. It is
interesting to note that on the day of onset each of these 3 persons had
partaken of fried duck egg of continental origin purchased from the
same shop gnd supplied from the same consignment. The history of
the illness in each was consistent with infection by the Salmonella
group of food-poisoning organisms. They all recovered after treatment
at home.
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