[Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Clitheroe R.D.C.

  • Clitheroe (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1970
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Credit: [Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Clitheroe R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In]mi:irLisation against poliomyelitis is nov/ available to all people up to the age of 40, As the laore severe paralysis seems to occur in the older people, it is most desirable that the older age groups should avail themselves of the opportunity of immunisation, as v;ell as the children. The following table gives the comparitive incidence of infectious disease dxxring the past five years. Notifiable Disease, 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 Average 1965/69 Measles 22 5 40 16 33 98 ^.4 I Dysentery 4 2 4 - - 1.4 i I Scarlet fever 5 6 2 - 4 6 3,6 j Diphtheria - - - - - - i Acute merdrigitis 1 - - - - j Acute poliomyelitis paralytic Non-paradytic — — — - 1 0.2 Acute encephalitis infective post-inf ectious - - - - - - - Leptospirosis - 1 - - - - 0.2 Paratyphoid fever - - - - - - i typhoid fever - - - - - - Food poisoning 1 3 - - - 0.6 Tetanus - - - - - - Infective jaundice 8 1 4 - - - 1.0 Tuberculosis respiratory 1 1 1 .. 3 ... 2 1.4 meninges and C.N.S. - - - - — > other — — - 1 1 - 0.4 Whooping cough 1 - 1 18 - - 3.8 Smallpox - - - - - - OphthaLmia neonatorum - - - - - - - imthrax - - - - - - - Yellow fever - - - - - - Others - - - - - - I Totals 43 19 32 L .... . 33 61 108 55.0 I i 14
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