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DYSENTERY (Sonne) Of the 168 cases of this disease which were notified, 56
cases were associated with outbreaks at day nurseries. In the previous year
254 cases were notified and there were 129 notifications in 1957.
ENCEPHALITIS (Post infectious) In the one case of this disease notified,
the condition was a complication of mumps, The child, a boy aged 14 years,
made an uneventful recovery.
MEASLES. This disease was prevalent throughout the year, but of the 1,592
cases notified, the greater proportion occurred in the first six months;
59 cases were admitted to hospital
MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTION. There were eight confirmed cases of this disease,
males aged 4 months, 3½ years and 8 years, and females aged 1 year, 1 year and
2 months, 1 year and 8 months, 7 years, and 46 years. All were admitted
to hospital The child aged 7 years died on the day she was admitted to
hospital and the cause of death was certified as Meningococcal Septicaemia
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM. Twenty-four cases were notified -
Hackney mothers 7
Non-Hackney mothers 17
Of the Hackney cases, six made satisfactory recoveries, and the seventh case
was lost sight of after change of address,
POLIOMYELITIS (Infantile paralysis). Some 27 persons were admitted to
hospital suspected to be suffering from poliomyelitis, but the diagnosis
was confirmed in only eight cases, six being of the paralytic type and two
non-paralytic.
Details of the cases are as follows:-
Paralytic Site of paralysis
Males - years Left upper limb muscles and
left diaphragm
21 years Limbs and respiratory muscles
Females - 2 years Left leg
5 years Both legs
29 years Bulbar
39 years Upper limbs
Non-paralytic Male aged 4 years and Female aged 11 years
In addition to the above, four persons normally resident in Hackney, were
admitted to hospitals outside the Borough and diagnosed after admission as
paralytic poliomyelitis:-
Males - 8 months Legs
3 years Spine
Females - 1½ years Spine
26 years Chest muscles and upper arms
Details of the three deaths from Poliomyelitis:-
(1) Male aged 21 years
Date of onset of disease - 10th September, 1959
Admitted to Hospital - 12th September, 1959
Died - 13th September, 1959
Cause of death certified as paralytic poliomyelitis