[Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, Basingstoke Borough.

  • Basingstoke (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1953
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Credit: [Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, Basingstoke Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES The following is an analysis of cases of notifiable diseases which occurred during the year :— Disease Total Cases Notified Cases admitted to Hospital Deaths Diphtheria .... — _ — Enteric Fever .... - - — Paratyphoid .... - - - Measles ..... 55 - — Whooping Cough ... 51 1 - Scarlet Fever .... 9 - - Poliomyelitis .... - - - Acute Primary Pneumonia - - - Puerperal Pyrexia ... - - - Erysipelas .... - - - Food Poisoning .... 3 - - Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1 - - Respiratory Tuberculosis 22 - 4 Non-Respiratory Tuberculosis 7 - - Totals 148 1 4 The following table indicates the incidence of certain notifiable diseases during the months of the year :— Measles Whooping Cough Scarlet Fever Food Poisoning Ophthalmia Neonatorum J anuary 11 - — 2 - February 2 - - - - March - 12 — — - April 4 - - - - May 17 - - - - June - 4 — — — - July - 5 3 - - - August - - 6 “ 1 - September 12 - - - October - 14 7 — 1 November — 3 1 — — December - 13 1 - - Totals 55 51 9 3 1 The biennial epidemic of Measles occurred this year but the incidence was mild compared with 1951 (230 notifications) and 1949 (190 cases). Whooping Cough, which also appears to have a marked biennial rise in the Borough, occurred in the Autumn this year and continued into the first quarter of 1954, making a total of