[Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Clitheroe R.D.C.

  • Clitheroe (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1965
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Credit: [Report 1965] / Medical Officer of Health, Clitheroe R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For the seventeenth year in succession, no case of diphtheria has been reported. This is entirely due to the success of iraraunisation, aind there is a danger that this success may lead parents to neglect having their children immunised. There have been cases of diphtheria reported in other 2Lreas of the country, and unless children continue to be immunised, diphtheria which is a killing disease, will once again become prevalent. There is no room for con5)lacency. One case of polionyelitis has been reported in the year. Immunisation against poliomyelitis is now available to all people up to the age of 40, As the more severe paralysis seems to occur in the old.er people, it is most desirable that the older age groups sho J.d avail themselves of the opppcatunity of immunisation as well as the children. The following table gives the comparative incidence of infectious, disease duilng the past five years. Diseases 1965 1964 1963 ■ ■ T 1962 1961 i960 Average; 1960/64] Smallpox . - “ - - - 1 1 .7. 4 ’ Scarlet Fever 6 5 5 2 13 15 8*0 1 Diphtheria - > - Enteric or I^hoid Fever . i - — — Paratyphoid Fever - - - - Measles 98 14 95 23 44 10 37*2 l(7hoopii)g Cough 5 - - 16 k-2 j Acute Pneumonia - 3 2 1 i Pueiperal I^rexia 2 2 — 1 1 1*2 i Cerebro-spinal Fever . > ** Acute Polionyelitis 1 - - 2 •4 < Acute Encephalitis lethargies - - » - - - Acute Polio-encephalitis - - - - - - ! Dysenteiy 15 [ ^ 10 52 1 15-8 I Ophthalmic Neonatorum - - - 1 Erysipelas - - - - - - Malaria - •• •• Pood Poisoning - - - - 1 2 I f Other Diseases ** - - - : - - Totals 107 ■ 42 103 33 114 45 68*4