[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough].

  • Kensington (London, England) Royal Borough.
Date:
[1965]
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    - 61 - Whooping Cough Thirty-five cases were notified during the year - two being treated in hospital. International Certificates In order to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, certain countries require that visitors should be vaccinated or inoculated against specified diseases. International certificates have been prescribed for smallpox, yellow fever and cholera. When completed by the medical practitioner, the certificates must be authenticated by the Medical Officer of Health. During the year, 4,547 of these certificates were authenticated in Kensington. In addition, 55 special exemption certificates were issued to travellers for use in North America. Notifications The following tables show (l) the number of cases of infectious disease notified during the year 1964 with comparative figures for the previous seven years; (2) the number of notifications divided into age groups; and (3) the number of cases notified in each ward of the borough:— TABLE 1 Notifiable disease Number of cases notified 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 Scarlet fever 14 9 15 30 29 54 27 33 Diphtheria (including membranous croup) - - - 1 - - - - Enteric fever 7 7 2 3 8 6 5 5 Puerperal pyrexia 86 74 103 168 138 112 116 123 Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia 19 13 20 28 16 60 70 75 dysentery 31 36 57 97 71 110 117 77 Erysipelas 3 2 7 5 9 6 11 7 Meningococcal infection 1 4 - 2 4 2 6 3 Malaria 4 3 3 1 2 1 1 5 Acute poliomyelitis: Paralytic - 1 2 6 3 7 2 13 Non-paralytic - - 1 1 - 1 2 2 Acute encephalitis - - 1 - - 1 1 3 Tuberculosis (all forms) 117 151 160 195 164 194 179 208 Measles 378 944 269 1497 457 737 654 982 Ophthalmia neonatorum 3 4 3 5 6 1 5 1 arteritis* 3 3 13 14 9 7 13 10 Pood Poisoning 40 31 18 42 40 65 47 52 Scabies 41 33 18 25 28 42 52 52 Whooping cough 35 79 22 30 154 83 92 130 TOTALS 782 1394 714 2150 1138 1489 1400 1781 * Notifiable only in children under the age of 5• NOTE: Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table.