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SECTION F — INFECTIOUS ILLNESS.
Notification. The following diseases are notifiable in the
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 Polio-Encephalitis
Puerperal Pyrexia
Relapsing Fever
Scarlet Fever
Smallpox
Trench Fever
Typhus Fever
Tuberculosis (all forms)
Whooping Cough
Measles
Smallpox. There were no notifications of Smallpox in our
district during the year but a considerable amount of followup
work has been undertaken by the department in keeping
persons under observation who have arrived in this Country
from areas abroad where Smallpox has occurred and who,
although they may not be known to be actual contacts of a
case, have had opportunities for such contact.
Enteric Fever. No cases of Typhoid or Paratyphoid Fever
were notified during the year, in fact there have been no such
cases since 1941, when two were notified.
Dysentery. There was only one actual notification in
respect of Dysentery received during the year but, in the case
of food poisoning the cause was, in some instances, proved
bacteriologically to be a disenteric infection and it is probable
that many more of the cases of food poisoning are, in fact,
cases of Dysentery. That they do not come to be notified as
such is probably mainly due to the fact that Bacillary Dysentery,
as a clinical disease, is associated with the organisms Schiga
and Flexner, whereas Sonne is associated with gastro-enteritis
which is still extensively regarded as a clinical entity, separate
and distinct from Dysentery. If gastro-enteritis was made a
notifiable disease, as such, it would possibly bring to light a
much larger number of these infections.
Food Poisoning. There were sixteen cases of food poisoning
notified during the year. All were either single cases or a small
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