[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Chichester City.

  • Chichester (England). City Council.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Chichester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL 0\'ER; INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES Notifiable Infectious Diseases Routine enquiries to trace the source of infection, etc., are made by the Public Health Department officials immediately on receipt of a notification of infectious disease. Advice is given to the parents as to home nursing, exclusion from schools, etc., (both of patients and contacts for the prescribed periods), disinfection (carried out, where required, by the Department's disinfector, either terminally or on removal of the patient to hospital) and general measures to prevent the spread of infection. The biennial epidemic of measles, which lasted from the end of February until the end of August, accounted for no less than 306 out of the total of 375 notifications of infectious disease received during 1961. Otherw'ise the incidence of disease was low. Table 12 on page 16 summarises the notifications received, by sex and age groups. POLIOMYELITIS 1 case only occurred during the year. This was a boy of 9, and the disease was non-'paralytic in type. Although the onset was at the beginning of October, and the patient was admitted to a general hospital in the City, a diagnosis of non-paralytic poliomyelitis was not made until a report from the laboratory on virological examination was available in March, 1962. On the Registrar-General's advice, therefore, this case was treated as a late-diagnosed one and assigned to 1961. Poliomyelitis vaccination - As mentioned elsewhere in this Report, active support was given to the campaign to encourage members of the general public to take advantage of the facilities offered for protection against poliomyelitis. The following table gives details of the numbers in the City in the various age groups who received protective vaccination against poliomyelitis during the year. Age groups; No. of injections: Children bom 1943- 1961 Young Persons born 1933- 1942 Persons bom before 1933 (not yet 40) Others Total Received two injections during year 381 85 296 30 792 Received third injection during year 298 78 428 82 886 Received fourth injection during year 1577 1577