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The particulars of each case are given in the following table:-
Sex.
Age.
Date of
Notification.
Notified
as
Result of
Bacteriological Examination
Before
admission
to hospital
After
admission
to hospital.
*F.
8
7/1/32
Paratyphoid B
Positive
-
F.
6
1/3/32
Typhoid
-
Positive
†F.
28
13/4/32
Typhoid
-
Negative
F.
57
5/7/32
Typhoid
-
Positive
F.
24
6/7/32
Paratyphoid B
-
Positive
F.
5 mths.
28/11/32
Paratyphoid B
-
Positive
F.
14
8/12/32
Paratyphoid B
Positive
-
* Patient treated at home.
Patient subsequently discharged as not suffering from Typhoid Fever.
NON-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
Measles.
Information of cases of this disease is obtained from a variety
of sources, the medical practitioners, health visitors, nursing
associations, parents, and from the head teachers of the London
County Council Schools. Measles, although endemic in this country,
tends to assume epidemic proportions every two years, and was
expected to recur during the autumn and winter of 1931. It was
not prevalent however in Camberwell until February of the year
under review, when nearly 600 cases were reported. The number of
cases steadily increased from that time until May when the disease
commenced to fade, and in July the number had diminished to 16.
The scheme of co-operation between the School Medical
Authority and the Borough Councils which was adopted throughout
London in the previous epidemic was again put into operation
during the period of this epidemic with satisfactory results.
This scheme has for its object the early submission to the
Medical Officer of Health of the names and addresses of suspected
cases of measles among school children, so that the necessary
administrative action can be taken by him to lessen the spread of
the disease, prevent the development of complications, and to reduce
the mortality.
These include the visitation of all known or suspected cases to
ensure adequate medical, nursing, and hygiene care in the home ;
the instruction of households with young children in infected areas
as to the signs and symptoms of this disease, the means of obtaining
nursing assistance and to secure the removal of particular cases to
hospital.