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Sonne Dysentery is a highly infectious disease which can he
fatal in very young children, and because of the rapidity with
which it spreads it is necessary to move quickly in applying
control measures when a case occurs if a large outbreak is to be
prevented.
The greatest chance of success comes when no time is lost
in recognising the condition and notifying it to the Public
Health Department so that preventive action can be initiated
without delay.
POLIOMYELITIS.
It is a great pleasure to record that for the first time
since 1949 no case of poliomyelitis was notified in the Borough.

Arrangements are made whereby doctors may collect
anti-poliomyelitis vaccine from the Public Health Department, and
this facility is very much appreciated and used.
At the end of the year good progress had been made towards
the protection by vaccination of the priority groups for which
vaccine had been issued by the Ministry of Health.
These groups were, and are, at the time of writing -
(a) Children and young persons born on or after 1st
January, 1933 providing that in the case of babies
they have reached the age of six months;
(b) Expectant mothers.
Vaccination consists of one simple initial injection given
into the arm followed approximately four weeks later by a second,
and after a period of seven months by a third.
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