[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Taunton Borough.

  • Taunton (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1962
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Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, Taunton Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Disease No. of Cases notified Measles ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 88 Scarlatina (Scarlet Fever) ... ... ... ... 14 Puerperal Pyrexia ... ... ... ... ... 4 Meningococcal Infection ... ... ... ... 1 Dysentery ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 Whooping Cough ... ... ... ... ... 2 Acute Primary Pneumonia ... ... ... ... 5 Acute Influenzal Pneumonia ... ... ... ... — Poliomyelitis ... ... ... ... ... ... — Erysipelas ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Food Poisoning ... ... ... ... ... 5 Tuberculosis—Respiratory ... ... ... ... 7 Tuberculosis—N on-Respiratory Diphtheria Enteric and Paratyphoid Fever Ophthalmia Neonatorum Acute Encephalitis Typhoid Fever Small Pox Malaria Anthrax TUBERCULOSIS Cases on the Borough Register Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary 31.12.61 94 14 Number of new cases during the year 11 2 Number of deaths during the year ... — — IMMUNISATION Diphtheria Immunisation. The immunisation campaign against diphtheria has been an outstanding success in this district, and in the country as a whole; but it remains essential that all young children should be given the benefit of this protection, and there is some evidence that without constant stress on this fact, the number of children being immunised each year might easily fall to a dangerously low level.