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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Surbiton 1959

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]

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Table: The number of nersons who were vaccinated or re-vaccinated during 1959 was:-

The number of nersons who were vaccinated or re-vaccinated during 1959 was:-

Age GroupsUnder 112-45-1415 or over.TOTAL
Vaccinations59038322872760
Re-vaccinations——54212221

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Calculations show that by the end of 1959 some 69.2% of children
born between 1st July, 1958 and 30th June, 1959, have been
vaccinated.
SONNE DYSENTERY
The number of cases reported during the year was 123 against
28 for the previous year.
The cases mainly occurred in connection with;-
(a) A Day Nursery in Kingston.
(b) A Children's Home in Berrylands Road.
(c) Grand Avenue School, and
(d) St. Andrew's School.
Whilst the majority of the cases were children a number of
adults became infected,as always seems to happen.
The usual control measures were put into operation and the
outbreaks subsided.

Table: The following table shows the number of cases occurring during the past ten years since first recognition of this disease in Surbiton:-

The following table shows the number of cases occurring during the past ten years since first recognition of this disease in Surbiton:-

1950:1951:1952:1953:1954:1955:1956:1957:1958:1959:
14062—10122528920228123

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Personal hygiene is of the utmost importance in prevention of
spread, especially the washing of hands after use of water-closets
and before eating.
W.Cs. should be kept scrupulously clean, seats, chain-pulls
and door handles in particular being frequently washed with
disinfectant.
Schools are naturally associated with the dissemination of
the illness, but without doubt it also spreads rapidly through
households once introduced. It is therefore regarded as a "family"
illness necessitating checking of all contacts. This is readily
done in the laboratory by examination of faeces, but the task of
l6.