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The estimated number of children under five years of age vaccinated
at the end of 1960, was 1,800.
Enteric Fever
No case of typhoid or paratyphoid fever was notified for the seventh
successive year. The last cases reported were two sisters who contracted
the infection abroad in 1953. If only we could secure the same degree
of purity of the air we breathe as we have done of our food and public
water supplies, what a saving in respiratory illness we would enjoy! The
great reduction in enteric fever, mainly as a result of the stringent control
of water supplies, is a striking example of what can be done by protecting
from pollution basic necessities of life.
Dysentery
Notifications of dysentery especially that due to Shigella Sonnei
have been more numerous in recent years. This is undoubtedly due in
the main to a greater awareness of the true nature of this inflammatory
condition of the intestinal tract. Relatively mild in its nature much of
this illness most certainly passed undetected or masqueraded under
various descriptions such as intestinal chill — gastro enteritis — food
poisoning, etc. It still does, but more intensive investigation and more
frequent recourse to laboratory examination now brings to light the
nature of this infection in an increasing number of cases.
An outbreak of Sonne dysentery occurred in the first quarter of the
year associated with Barrow Hedges Primary School and, as is not
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