[Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicester Borough.

Leicester (England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1963

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Credit: [Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicester Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A punched card system is being installed for recording and analysing the results of these enquiries and, at the time of writing, this has not yet been brought into use. It is, therefore, possible to give only a brief outline of the results for 1963, but it is hoped to provide a great deal more information in future reports. A total of 214 cases became known to the department during the year, distributed as follows: started January 9 February 8 March 34 April 10 May 10 June 9 80 >ory notification Notified Otherwise ascertained July 7 2 August 17 3 September 16 10 October 16 6 November 26 3 December 27 2 108 26 The 80 cases known to have occurred in the months prior to com¬ pulsory notification were almost all school children and, as in 1962, reported by head teachers. A further 134 cases occurred after 1st July and of these: 110 (82-1 %) were school children 7 (5-2%) were pre-school children and 17 (12-7%) were adults. This predominance of young persons is characteristic of the disease. Geographically, although scattered cases occurred throughout the city, cases being reported from 60 separate schools, there was a definite tendency for local concentrations of cases to occur in particular areas, these being associated with outbreaks in local schools. This was particularly marked in the north-eastern quarter of the city, especially during the second half of the year, where a considerable concentration of cases occurred associated with outbreaks during the first part of the period at Coleman Infant and Junior Schools, and during the second part at Merridale Infant and Junior Schools.