[Epidemiological aspects in the evolution of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis (ECSM) in the city of Bucharest in the period 1951-1973].

Analysis of the evolution of the main epidemiologic indices showed that epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis evolved during the last two decades in our country according to the general evolution of this disease in most of the developed countries in the temperate zone, however with certain particular elements revealed by the data obtained in the country and in Bucharest. Details are given for the town in Bucharest, during the 1951-1973 period, concerning the general trends of the frequency and gravity indices of the cases, the structure per age groups of the morbidity, the forms of manifestation of the epidemiologic process. Stress is laid on the seasonal character (winter-spring) of the increase in the number of cases and the periodicity of the epidemic waves.