[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Gravesend Borough.

  • Gravesend (Kent, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1961
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    SECTION .F” PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND 44 OTHER DISEASES'’ INFECTIOUS DISEASES The following notifiable infectious diseases were recorded:- Measles .. .. .. .. .. 899 Whooping Cough .. .. .. .. 2 Tuberculosis - Respiratory . . .. .. 20 - Non-Respiratory .. .. 3 Pneumonia .. .. .. .. .. 21 Scarlet Fever .. .. .. .. 13 Erysipelas .. .. .. .. .. 6 Puerperal Pyrexia .. .. .. .. 3 Acute Poliomyelitis-Paralytic Dysentery .. .. .. .. .. 1 968 A table showing other particulars is given on page 8 There were no cases of Smallpox or Diphtheria, INSTITUTIONAL ACCOMMODATION FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES Patients needing institutional accommodation for treatment or isolation were sent to Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Other arrangements include the following:- (a) Ophthalmia Neonatorum - Kent Ophthalmic Hospital, Maidstone, (b) Smallpox - The River Hospital (Long Reach) Dartford, (c) Tuberculosis - Bow Arrow Hospital, Dartford, and other hospitals and sanatoria arranged by the Chest Physicians, POLIOMYELITIS VACCINATION Details are found on page 37,