View report page

PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The Kingston Group Hospital Management Committee (South West
Metropolitan Region) has supplied me with the following figures for
1949:-
ANALYSIS OF PATIENTS ADMITTED TO THE TOLWORTH ISOLATION
HOSPITAL FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1949.
Diphtheria.
Scarlet
fever.
Other
Diseases.
Total.
Surbiton.
—
84
25
109
Maiden and Coombe
-
39
40
79
Esher
-
57
33
90
Patients admitted from
outside the Constituent
District.
-
64
46
110
-
244
144
388
The twentyfive "other diseases" admitted to the hospital are as
follows:-
Erysipelas 2
Measles 8
Encephalitis 1
Pneumonia 6
Whooping cough 3
Poliomyelitis 5
Scarlet Fever.
The number of cases notified is more than double that of 1948
which is the highest since 1944 although there were no deaths since
the severity of scarlet fever is declining.
The notified ninetyfive cases are shown in wards below:-
Berrylends 11
Tolworth South 9
Hook and Southborough 21
Surbiton Hill 2
St. Mark's 6
Tolworth East 10
Tolworth West 2
Chessington. 34
Diphtheria.
There have been no cases in the area since 1946. Diphtheria has
shown a marked decline since immunisation was first aopted by this
Authority in 1936.
7