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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
NOTIFICATIONS
Details of infectious and contagious diseases notified under the provisions
of the Public Health Act, 1936, (confirmed diagnoses) in 1966 were as follows:-
Anthrax Nil
Cholera Nil
Diphtheria Nil
Dysentery 196
Encephalitis 6
Enteric (Typhoid or Para-typhoid)
fever 7
Erysipelas 9
Food Poisoning 31
Leprosy 1
Malaria Nil
Measles 2,337
Membranous croup Nil
Meningococcal infection 5
Ophthalmia neonatorum 8
Plague Nil
Pneumonia 17
Poliomyelitis Nil
Puerperal Pyrexia 57
Scarlet fever 65
Smallpox Nil
Tuberculosis 116
Typhus fever Nil
Whooping cough 133
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
There was a total of 57 cases notified to the Department; 54 were associated
with hospital confinements and 3 cases with home confinements; 50 of the
total number of cases related to Hackney residents or mothers.
TUBERCULOSIS
Apart from the 116 primary notifications of tuberculosis 56 non-primary
notifications were received. These latter are cases that have either been
previously notified in another area and have now transferred into Hackney or
notified posthumously. The attack rate per thousand of the population for all
forms of tuberculosis notified for the first time was 0.46 as compared with
0.53 in 1965.

In addition 16 primary notifications and 3 non-primary notifications of
non-pulmonary tuberculosis were received.
The number on the department's tuberculosis register at the beginning of
the year was 2,538. After adding primary notifications and transfers in, and
subtracting deaths, transfers out and recovered cases etc., the number on the
register fell to 2, 425 by the end of the year.
The Department is able to provide a number of services for the tuberculous
and a summary of the help available is set out below:-