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SECTION E—INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF
FOOD.
(See Sanitary Inspector's Report, on page 44).
SECTION F—INFECTIOUS ILLNESS.
Notification. The following diseases are notifiable in
the Urban District:—
Cholera.
Cerebro-spinal fever.
Continued fever.
Diphtheria (including membranous
croup).
Dysentery.
Enteric Fever (including
paratyphoid fevers).
Erysipelas.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
Food poisoning.
Malaria.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Plague.
Acute Primary pneumonia.
Acute influenzal pneumonia.
Acute Poliomyelitis.
Acute Polioencephalitis.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Relapsing fever.
Scarlet fever.
Smallpox.
Trench fever.
Typhus fever.
Tuberculosis (all forms).
Smallpox. The district has been free of smallpox infection
for six years. No notifications were received in 1939.
Enteric Fever. For the second year in succession no
cases of Typhoid or Paratyphoid Fever were reported.
Dysentery. Only one case of Dysentery was reported
during the year and this attack of a very mild nature.
Scarlet Fever. Scarlet Fever, again of a mild type, was
less prevalent than in the previous year. Ninety-eight cases
were notified compared with 161 in 1938, giving an incidence
rate of 1.37 per thousand population and compares with a rate
of 1.89 for the country as a whole. Of the total cases 89
(90 per cent.) were removed to Isolation Hospital. The attack
rate was heaviest in the Ravensbury Ward.
There were no deaths recorded from Scarlet Fever.
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