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Malaria.—There were 20 cases of this disease notified,
and the whole of them were infected in the Army during
the war.
Dysentery.—Only one case of this disease was notified,
the patient developing the disease in Mesopotamia during
the war.
Encephalitis Lethargica.—Three cases were notified during
1923. Two were removed to Institutions. All three
cases died. One death was certified as cerebral abscess.
Ophthalmia neonatorum.—Thirty-three notifications of
cases of ophthalmia neonatorum were received during 1923.
Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Cases Treated
Notified.
Vision
Unimpaired.
Vision
Impaired.
Total
Blindness.
At
Home.
In
Hospital.
33
24
9
32*
Nil
Nil
*One case moved out of Borough, address unknown.
No cases of cholera, plague, typhus, trench fever,
anthrax, relapsing fever, glanders, rabies, or continued fever
were reported in 1923.
TUBERCULOSIS.
During the year 1923, 657 new cases of tuberculosis were
notified, 505 representing pulmonary tuberculosis and 152
other forms of the disease.
The deaths of non-notified cases of tuberculosis numbered
73, and the total tuberculosis deaths 305; the proportion of
non-notified tuberculosis deaths to the total deaths from this
disease being approximately one in four.
Hospitals and other Institutions are the principal
offenders in the matter of failure to notify cases. Reasons
for the failure may be found in the fact that a large
percentage of cases arrive in a moribund condition, and
sometimes the actual nature of the disease is only discovered
after death.
No instances of wilful neglect or refusal to notify have
been discovered.