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hospital to see a case at its onset and that none of these cases
were seen until the paralysis was well established, The delay
in notification, therefore, did not cause any corresponding
delay in any preventive action being taken by us, By the
time most of these cases are diagnosed the power of infection
is probably long past, and any precautions by disinfection
quite useless,
Enquiry at the homes of the patients showed that not
one case had any connection whatsoever with any other, that
is to say, no one case was infected from the other, but arose
from some other source not ascertainable,
Previous to these cases, two cases only had been notified
during 1915 in the Borough and none have occurred since,
SUMMER DIARRHCEA,
The number of deaths from diarrhoea was 55, being
19 less than in the previous year, Thirty.eight were
under 1 year of age,
During the year leaflets dealing with precautions
which should be taken for the prevention of summer
diarrhoea were delivered by the Lady Health Visitor
where births had occurred during the year of this
Report,
DANGER FROM FLIES,
During the year, illustrated leaflets were distributed,
pointing out the danger from flies, and showing how
disease was spread by their carrying filth and germs
from ashpits, privies, manure heaps, decaying animal
and vegetable refuse, to food, etc,
Supplies of leaflets were sent to the Registrars of
Births and Deaths, who kindly offered to hand them
to parents registering the births of their children,
TABULAR STATEMENT—ZYMOTIC DISEASES,
The following table shows the number of cases
that were reported as due to the undermentioned
20 zymotic diseases during the years 1906 to 1915,