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Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Twelve cases of this disease were notified, seven of
whom were treated in hospital. All twelve cases recovered
without injury to sight.
Gastro-Enteritis
This disease is notifiable in children up to the age
of 5 years and during the year sixty-three cases were reported;
of these fifty-five cases were treated in hospital.
During the year there were three deaths of children
under the age of 2 years suffering from diarrhoea.
Scabies
The number of notifications was only seventy-two
compared with one hundred and six in the previous year
and four hundred and sixty-three in the peak year of 1946.
Tuberculosis
During the year two hundred and seventy-eight new cases
of tuberculosis were notified, of which two hundred and
forty-eight were respiratory and thirty non-respiratory cases.