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Section F—Prevalence of and Control over
Infectious and other Diseases.
The district has within its boundaries three General Hospitals two of
which, namely Queen Mary's Hospital for Children and the St. Helier
Hospital, are particularly large institutions which are part of the hospital
services of the South-West Metropolitan Hospital Region. Many of the
cases notified from these hospitals are admitted there from other districts
already suffering from a notifiable disease, but not diagnosed until after
admission. In order, therefore, to give a clearer picture of the prevalence of
infectious disease in the resident population of the district, separate figures
are given in this Section which exclude cases of hospital patients who are
not residents of the district. The figures given are after correction for
original errors in diagnosis.
Notification
The following diseases are notifiable in the district:—
Smallpox
Cholera
Diphtheria
Membranous Croup
Erysipelas
Scarlatina or
Scarlet Fever
Measles
Whooping Cough
Tuberculosis
Dysentery
Acute Primary
Pneumonia
Acute Influenzal
Pneumonia
Acute Poliomyelitis
Acute
Polioencephalitis
Typhus Fever
Typhoid Fever
Enteric Fever
Relapsing or Continued
Fever
Meningococcal Infection
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum
Puerperal Pyrexia
Malaria
Food Poisoning and
suspected food
poisoning
Leprosy
Smallpox
There was no variola infection in the district in 1959.
Vaccination against Smallpox.
The records in respect of children under five years of age are sufficiently
complete to give a close estimate as to the numbers in this age group
protected against smallpox by vaccination. The percentage treated at some
time in their lives under the age of 5 years at the end of 1959 was approximately
54%, a not unsatisfactory figure in the absence for many years of
smallpox in the area and by comparison with the national rate.
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