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School Notifications
The school intimation notices of infections disease are always
compared with the notifications received from the medical
practitioners. If any case on the school return is found to be
unnotified, investigations are made in order to find out if the
patient is receiving medical attention.
The school notices also give fairly accurate estimate of the
prevalence of non-notifiable infectious disease, such as chicken
pox, mumps, etc. The numbers so notified were as follows:—
Chicken pox 170
Mumps 134
Impetigo 2
Jaundice 3
Rubella 11
Ringworm 2
Scabies 1
Measles 381
Whooping cough 54
Scarlet fever 23
Meningitis 2
Tonsillitis 1
Conjunctivitis 3
Cancer
The number of deaths from cancer registered during the year
was 111, of which 61 were males and 50 were females.
Cancer is mainly a disease of the digestive system, with the
exception of its preference for the generative system in females.