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Three-quarters of the cases in 1946 were in adults and two cases
were admitted to the Isolation Hospital as suffering from the disease. A
total of 22 deaths from all forms of pneumonia occurred, including two
deaths in the Isolation Hospital in infants, one from croup and bronchopneumonia,
the other following septic bronchitis.
Measles.
There was a marked drop in the number of notifications of measles
from the record of 705 in 1945 to 141 in 1946, of which latter 4 cases were
admitted to the Isolation Hospital where all recovered. No deaths from
this disease occurred during the year and there has only been one death
from measles during the last 8 years, compared with 16 in the 24 years
before the war.
Measles and whooping cough were made notifiable during the first
world war and again since 1939. The arguments against the retention of
their compulsory notification in a District such as this were stated fully
in my last Annual Report.
Whooping Cough.
During 1946 only 31 notifications of whooping cough were received,
compared with 100 in 1945. This is the lowest number of notifications
since 1940, when the notification of this disease had only just commenced.
No deaths occurred during 1946, compared with 5 in the period 1939-45,
4 in the preceding 14 years and 9 in the period 1915-24.