Report of the Department of Health / City of Montreal.

  • Montréal (Québec). Department of Public Health.
Date:
[1960]
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Credit: Report of the Department of Health / City of Montreal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DIVISION DES MALADIES CONTAGIEUSKS par le docteur G. Chare3t, 4pidemiologiste et surintendant Le8 maladies contagieuses aigufis, durant les ann6es 1959 et I960, ont 6t6 caract4ris6es au d4but de 1959* par une 4pid4mie de fievre scarlatine aveo un total de 1,806 cas rapport6s et 2 d6ces pour lfann4e entiere comparativement a 709 cas et aucun d4ces en I960. De plus, une 6pid6mie de poliomydlite ant&rieure aigug a a4vi durant les six derniers mois de l*ann4e 1959 ainsi qu’une dclosion de fievre typholde en f4vrier 1959 tandia qu’en I960, il y eut une 4closion de trichinoae durant le deuxieme semestre del,ann6e et une autre de meningite aseptiaue. Vers la fin de l’ann4e I960, la rougeole a repris sa tendance epid4- mique avec une incidence marquee. Dans 1*ensemble, il y eut 7,467 cas de maladies contagieuses rapport4s en 1959 en comparaison de 6,704 en I960. Cependant, le nombre de d4ces fut une fois et demie plus 4lev4e en 1959, soit 30 DIVISION OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES by G. Charest, M.D., M.P.H., Epidemiologist and Superintendent Acute communicable diseases during the years 1959 and i960 have been characterized at the beginning of the year 1959, by an epidemic of scarlet fever with a total of 1,806 cases reported and 2 deaths for the entire year in comparison with 709 cases and no death in I960. Moreover, an epidemic of acute anterior polio¬ myelitis has occurred during the last six months of the year 1959 and also an outbreak of typhoid fever in February 1959 while in I960, there was an outburst of trichinosis during the second semester of the year and another one of aseptic meningitis. Near the end of I960, measles has recurred to its epidemic tendancy with a marked incidence. In the whole, there were 7,487 cases of communicable diseases reported in 1959 in comparison with 6,704 in I960. However, the number of deaths was one time arri a half higher in 1959 being 30 death3 with