[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Calne & Chippenham R.D.C.

  • Calne and Chippenham (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Calne & Chippenham R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE. The following table shows- the Infections Diseases notified, during 1955 as compared v/ith the years 1950,1951> 1952,1953 and 1954. 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 a b a b £ i b a b a b ! a b DISEASE, Scarlet Fever 155 155 145 145 49 49 21 21 11 11 15 14 Whooping Sough 216 216 149 149 31 31 71 71 36 36 103 H 0 Diphtheria 2 Measles 370 370 570 570 102102659659 20 20 293 293 Ac,Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) 6 6 5 4 1 1 4 4 2 2 3 2 Ac,Poliomyelitis (Non-Paralytic) 3 «-• 10 7 2 1 25 15 8 3 6 3 Dysentery 8 5 29 29 42 42 3 3 6 2 — «■* Ophthalmia Neonatorum - Puerperal Pyrexia Smallpox Para Typhoid Fever 1 1 3 3 7 6 1 1 2 2 Typhoid Fever - - — - - — - - - - - Pood Poisoning 0-m — 3 3 mm - 1 1 2 2 4 3 Erysipelas 5 5 2 2 2 2 1 1 - — 1 1 Pneumonia 20 20 12 12 9 9 2 2 8 8 23 23 Cerebro Spinal Fever 2 1 1 1 mm mm mm 1 1 mm Ac,Encephalitis — — 1 1 1 — — — •• — TOTALS 788 779 930 925 247 243 788788 96 87 448 442 There v/as a sharp rise in the number of notifications of infectious, disease received in 1955 as compared v;ith the previous year. This v/as principally due to an outbreak of Measles and Whooping Cough© Although nine cases of Poliomyelitis were notified only five were subsequently confimed,two of which v/ere classified as of the paralytic tsrpe; the remaining three suffered from the non-paralytic form of the disease. Three individuals v/ere confirmed as suffering from Pood Poisoning, Inves^tigations did not discover the source of infection and no secondary cases were reported. In September, an outbreak of Gastro-enteritis occurred in Stanton St, Quinton and environs involving some thirty households, A total of twenty adults and thirty five children suffered symptons of nausea, voniting, diarrhoea and abdominal pains. No common factors emerged following a detailed enquiry, and a full bacterioligical investigation did not confirm the prorencG of x^athogenic organisms in any of the specimens sent off for examination. The outbreak reached its peak during the period 5th - 9th, September, tailing off since. ’s-a'' ;r.f Numbers originally notified ’•1'' Pinal^- nuintbers after eoi’pecticn©
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