Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg.

  • Johannesburg (South Africa)
Date:
[1960]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of Johannesburg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -10- l. NOTIFIED CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. the Details of the number of cases of infectious diseases notified during year are given in the following table:- LOCAL CASES IMPORTED CASES E C A N TOTAL E C A N TOTAL Diphtheria 27 16 - 194 237 1 - - 9 10 Scarlet Fever 511 2 1 7 521 3 - - - 3 Typhoid 3 8 - 37 48 3 - - 9 12 Meningitis 11 3 - 35 49 - - - - - Erysipelas 7 - - - 7 - - - - - Puerperal Sepsis 9 4 - 78 91 - - - - - Pemphigus 12 - - 12 24 - — - - - Ophthalmia Neonatorum — — — 31 31 — — — — — Poliomyelitis 41 3 3 52 99 - - - - Malaria - - - - - 3 - - 27 30 Leprosy - - - - - - - - 21 21 Encephalitis 36 2 - 7 45 - - - - - Trachoma - - - - - - - - | 7 7 1 Relapsing Fever - - - - - - - - 3 ! 3 Insecticide Poisoning — — 1 1 — — _ «■» Smallpox - - - 6 6 - - - - - TOTAL 657 38 4 460 1,159 10 - - 76 86 Tuberculosis: Pulmonary 136 142 24 2,757 3,059 17 8 1 2,964 2,990 Other Forms 18 32 1 310 361 3 2 - 54 59 ALL DISEASES 811 212 29 3,527 4,579 1___ 30 10 1 3,094 3,135 The prevalence of infectious disease has been generally lower than the prev year, except for an increase in the incidence of poliomyelitis. Typhoid Fever. The incidence of typhoid fever has shown a steady decline in the last ten years interrupted in the case of Europeans, by a rather high incidence (26 cases in 1959. In the current year there were 3 European cases (with 1 death), 5 Coloured cases (no deaths) and 37 Native cases (4 deaths). The extensive in¬ oculation campaign following on the Johannesburg gaol outbreak in 1959 very likely has a bearing on this situation. A small