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MEASLES. This disease was prevalent throughout the year, but of the 820
cases notified, the greater proportion occurred in the last seven months:
41 cases received hospital treatment
MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTION Four confirmed cases of this disease, males aged
1% years and 18 years and females aged 1½ years and 2½ years, were admitted to
hospital and made satisfactory recoveries
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM. Twenty one cases were notified, of which 20 are
known to have made complete recoveries The remaining case was lost sight of
after change of address. Thirteen of the cases resided outside the borough.
POLIOMYELITIS (infantile paralysis). Some 13 persons were admitted to
hospital suspected to be suffering from Poliomyelitis, but the diagnosis was
confirmed in only two cases, both being of the paralytic type. Details of
the cases are as follows -
Paralytic Site of paralysis
Male - 5 years Lower limbs.
Female - 1¼ years Left lower limb.
In addition to the above, a boy aged 12½ years, normally resident in
Hackney, was diagnosed as suffering from Paralytic Poliomyelitis whilst he was
an in-patient of a hospital situated outside the borough.

PUERPERAL PYREXIA, Of the 121 notifications of Puerperal Pyrexia received,
117 were associated with hospital confinements and four with home confinements.
Only 64 notifications related to Hackney residents,
SCARLET FEVER. Notifications of this disease numbered 179 as compared with
90 in the previous year and 130 in 1956: 29 cases were admitted to hospital.