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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
Carshalton 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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Since the turn of the year, the County Council, with commendable
promptitude, have sought and obtained sanction to extend their scheme
of immunisation under Section 26 of the National Health Service Act
to include arrangements for preventive immunisation against whooping
cough.
TABLE 13.
WHOOPING COUGH—WARD INCIDENCE AND MONTHLY DISTRIBUTION,
1951.
(Excluding hospital patients non-resident in Carshalton).
| 1951 | Ward | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Helier North | St. Helier South | St. Helier West | North-East | North- West | Central | South-East | South-West | Total | |
| January | 38 | 7 | 13 | 42 | 12 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 142 |
| February | 14 | 16 | 15 | 31 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 109 |
| March | 2 | 13 | 18 | 15 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 83 |
| April | 5 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | — | 1 | 36 |
| May | 3 | — | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 17 |
| June | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 17 |
| July | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | — | 1 | 2 | — | 16 |
| August | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 12 |
| September | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| October | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | - | 2 |
| November | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | - | 5 | 17 |
| December | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 10 |
| Totals | 81 | 52 | 75 | 110 | 66 | 41 | 19 | 20 | 464 |
| Monthly Mean | 6.75 | 4.33 | 6.25 | 9.16 | 5.50 | 3.41 | 1.58 | 1.66 | 38.66 |
| Case rate per 1,000 population | 9.51 | 7.49 | 9.09 | 11.88 | 9.19 | 6.72 | 2.43 | 3.03 | 7.51 |
Meningococcal Infection.
Cerebro-spinal fever has never assumed epidemic proportions in
the district. Odd cases have occurred from year to year but none was
notified in 1951.
Poliomyelitis.
Three cases of "infantile paralysis" were notified. These compare
with 4 in 1950, 3 in 1949, 3 in 1948 and 15 in the peak year of 1947.
In two of the three cases, a young adult of 17 and a girl of 11, the infection
was not accompanied by any paralysis and recovery was uneventful.
The third, a girl of 3 years was afflicted with extensive paralysis affecting
considerable parts of all four limbs. She is still receiving in-patient
hospital treatment.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
For yet another year, the sixth in succession, no case of this infection
of the eyes in the new-born was notified.
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