[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council.

  • Anglesey (Wales). County Council. no2003102100.
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In Table 15 will be found the trend of notifications over the last 10 years. Table 15. Notifications of Infectious Diseases 1945/54 Disease 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 Diphtheria 75 27 9 4 2 Scarlet Fever 77 36 27 21 14 65 27 58 49 99 Paratyphoid .... — — — ] — j Dysentery — — l 2 — 23 50 6 63 3 Pneumonia 31 48 42 43 31 28 81 29 10 21 Meningococcal In- fections 1 1 1 1 — — 1 Ac. Poliomyelitis ..1 — 2 1 2 3 4 2 5 4 Puerperal Pyre.xia. . — 1 1 — — — .— 1 Erysipelas 3 1 2 5 4 4 3 2 2 Measles 97 543 291 379 227 175 1191 70 763 159 Whooping Cough . . 134 33 90 196 44 72 430 286 144 168 Ophth. Neonatorum .— — — — 1 — — — — .— Food Poisoning . . — — — — — — — 7 3 59 Encephalitis — — — — — — — — 1 — Malaria* —• — — — — — — — — 1 * Contracted abroad There were no cases of diphtheria, smallpox or ophthalmia neonatorum notified during the year. Scarlet fever was rather prevalent, the number of cases (99) being the highest number notified since 1944. This is the fifth year in succession in which no confirmed cases of Diphtheria has been notified, and the eighth consecutive year in which no death has occurred from this disease. That this happy state of affairs is the result of widespread immunisation cannot be contested. Pneumonia was rather more prevalent than in the previous year, due to a sharp epidemic of influenza “B” in November and December. The incidence of measles was considerably less, but there was a slight rise in the incidence of whooping cough. Four sporadic cases of poliomyelitis came to notice during the year, three of which were of the paralytic type. The county was again, however, spared any major prevalence of this disease. Two food poisoning outbreaks came to notice during the year. The first, in April, affected three members of a family in Beaumaris and was shown to be due to S. typhi-murium. Despite full in- vestigation by the M.O.H. of the Borough the source of the outbreak