[Report 1960] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1960
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    or 6 • 8 per cent, of the total. Of the cases, 317 were Sonne, 69 Flexner and one amoebic, whilst the remaining 793 were not typed. There were again outbreaks of Sonne dysentery in a number of day nurser¬ ies and these accounted for 92 cases (87 children and 5 staff). Five of the children were removed to Seacroft Hospital. At one of the nurseries, two children gave faeces which were positive for Flexner dysentery and at another, one child was found positive for Salmonella typhi-murium. Sporadic cases of Sonne dysentery also occurred during the year at three day nurseries and three hospitals in the city. All these cases were bacteriologically confirmed and all recovered. During August, 21 cases of suspected dysentery were notified from an old peoples' hostel in the city. Faeces specimens were obtained from a number of those affected but in no cases were any pathogenic organisms isolated. The outbreak was of short duration and all recovered. In October three cases of Sonne dysentery, all children, were removed from a general hospital in the city to Seacroft Hospital. Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis).—There was only one accepted case of this disease during the year as compared with II last year. The patient was a woman aged 41 years who was admitted to Seacroft Hospital in January suffering from a mild paralytic form of the disease. She made a complete recovery. Virol- ogical tests gave negative results. This is the lowest number of cases since 1945. It seems likely that vaccination against poliomyelitis has played a large part in reducing the incidence. Cases and deaths for the past five years are as follows :— Year Cases Deaths 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 95 4i 23 60 11 3 1 2