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58
1915]
OTHER NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
Acute Poliomyelitis, Cerebrospinal Meningitis, Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
Tuberculosis, Plague and Cholera.
Acute Poliomyelitis.
Fifteen cases were ascribed to this disease during the year, as contrasted
with 8 in 1914. No death, however, was registered.
1915.
Cases. Deaths.
1914.
Cases. Deaths.
1st quarter 2 nil 1 nil
2nd „ 4 „ 1 1
3rd „ 5 „ 2 1
4th ,, 4 ,, 4 1
15 nil 8 3
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
Forty cases were notified, or 33 more than in 1914. In ten instances it was
noted that the patients had been in direct contact with soldiers recently returned
from military camps, while two patients were Army men; but it cannot be
proved, however much it may be suspected, that they (the soldiers) were the
source of the infection.
A return of the cases of the disease since it became notifiable is given
in the following statement:—
1907.
1908.
1909
1910.
1911.
1912.
1913.
1914.
1915.
Total
Cases
1907-15.
Total
Deaths.
1907-15.
1st quarter
—
2
2
3
4
1
1
2
12
27
15
2nd „
3
2
3
7
4
6
3
3
13
44
27
3rd „
5
—
2
1
3
3
1
2
11
28
15
4th „
3
3
3
4
2
3
1
—
4
23
15
Year
11
7
10
15
13
13
6
7
40
122
72
The deaths during the year numbered 21, and were equal to the enormous
fatality of 52 per cent. of the cases notified.