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(2) Female aged 29 years
Date of onset of disease - 10th July, 1959
Admitted to hospital - 10th July, 1959
Died - 12th July, 1959
Cause of death certified as bulbar poliomyelitis
(3) Female aged 39 years
Date of onset of disease - 22nd July, 1959
Admitted to hospital - 23rd July, 1959
Died - 1st August, 1959
Cause of death certified as acute pulmonary
collapse: respiratory anterior poliomyelitis.
POLIOMYELITIS. Incidence and deaths of cases notified in the Borough of
Hackney since 1950:-
Ye ar
Type
Under
1 year
1- 4
years
5-14
years
15-19
years
20 years
end over
Totals
Total
cases
Deaths
1950
Paralytic
-
4
5
2
2
13
23
2
Non-paralytic ..
-
3
5
-
2
10
-
1951
Paralytic
-
-
1
-
1
2
2
-
Non-paralytic ..
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1952
Paralytic
-
5
2
-
1
8
15
-
Non-paralytic ..
-
1
4
-
2
7
-
1953
Paralytic
-
5
2
-
3
10
13
1
Non-paralytic ,.
-
-
-
-
3
3
-
1954
Paralytic
-
2
2
-
-
4
7
-
Non-paralytic ..
-
-
2
-
1
3
-
1955
Paralytic
1
5
6
4
4
20
35
-
Non-paralytic ..
-
-
12
1
2
15
-
1956
Paralytic .,
-
-
2
-
1
3
5
-
Non-paralytic ..
-
-
1
-
1
2
-
1957
Paralytic
1
1
2
1
-
5
10
-
Non-paralytic ..
-
1
3
-
1
5
-
1958
Paralytic
-
1
1
-
-
2
2
-
Non-paralytic ..
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1959
Paralytic
-
1
2
-
3
6
8
3
Non-paralytic ..
-
1
1
-
-
2
-
PUERPERAL PYREXIA. Of the 140 notifications of Puerperal Pyrexia received
138. were associated with hospital confinements and two with home confinements.
Only 77 notifications related to Hackney residents.
SCARLET FEVER Notifications of this disease numbered 166 as compared
with 179 in the previous year and 90 in 1957: 29 cases were admitted to
hospital.