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PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in Hackney:-
Anthrax Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Cholera Paratyphoid Fever
Continued Fever Plague
Diphtheria (or Membranous Croup) Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal
Dysentery Pneumonia, Acute Primary
Encephalitis, Acute Poliomyelitis, Acute
Erysipelas Puerperal Pyrexia
Food Poisoning (or suspected Food Relapsing Fever
Poisoning) Scabies
Glanders Scarlet Fever
Hydrophobia Snallpox
Leprosy Tuberculosis
Malaria Typhoid Fever
Measles Typhus Fever
Meningococcal Infection Whooping Cough
The total number of infectious and contagious diseases notified, excluding
tuberculosis, was 3,293 which included 2,141 cases of measles and 447
cases of dysentery The NINE DEATHS associated with notifiable infectious
diseases were:-
Dysentery (Female 79 years) 1
Date of onset of disease 16.2.55
Removed to Eastern Infectious Diseases Hospital 17.2.55
Died 10.3.55
Cause of death certified as:1a
Myocardial infarction
II Bacillary Dysentery (Sonne)
Measles (Male 8 years) 1
This child had been an in-patient of the Fountain Mental
Hospital, Wandsworth since June, 1951
Removed to Brook Infectious Diseases Hospital .. 2(5.5.55
Died 2.6.55
Cause of death certified as Purulent Bronchitis following Measles
Food Poisoning (Male 48 years) 1
Date of onset of illness 5.8.55
Removed to Plaistow Infectious Diseases Hospital 6.8.55
Died 8.8.55
Specimen of faeces reported positive - Salmonella
Typhi-murium 9.8.55
Cause of death certified as:la
Asphyxia
b Inhalation of vomit
c Gastro Enteritis
II Gall Stones
Pneumonia - Acute Primary (Males aged 1 month and 85 years; and
Females aged 49, 72 and 75 years) 5
Puerperal Pyrexia (Female 37 years) 1
Date of confinement and onset of Pyrexia 22.9.55
Notified Puerperal Pyrexia 29.9.55
Admitted to Hospital 30.9.55
Died 1.10.55
Cause of death certified as Sepsis following abortion