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INFLUENZA.
The deaths directly ascribed to this disease numbered 47, and
these occurred almost entirely in the months February and March.
Nurse Ager paid 31 visits, and other cases were visited by the Health
Visitors. By arrangements, which came into operation during the
vear, a Borough Nurse will be available for nursing services and
advice during future outbreaks of Influenza within the Borough, as
well as of Measles and Whooping-cough. A handbill in use relating to
this disease (as re-drafted during the year) is appended to this
Report.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Under Puerperal Fever are included deaths from Pyaemia
and Septicaemia occurring in lying in women. No case was
notified during the year; and there was no death from this disease.
PHTHISIS (CONSUMPTION) AND OTHER FORMS OF.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Sixty-nine cases of Phthisis were notified under the
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912.
Thirty-six of the notified cases were insured under the Insurance
Act.
Eight of the notified cases ascribed the onset of the disease to
exposure while in the army ; in 7 cases there was a history of
Phthisis in parents or grand-parents.
Nurse A. Ager, who is appointed to give part-time services
in connection with the Tuberculosis work within the Borough, has,
acting under the instruction of the Medical Officer of the
Tuberculosis Dispensary, and myself, dealt with 70 different cases,
making in all 530 visits in 1919.
The value of our present measures against Tuberculosis is
seriously discounted by the failure to make the scheme sufficiently
comprehensive.