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Health Visitors.—The Health Visitors visit infants notified under the Notification of Births
Act, cases of ophthalmia in the newly born, infants suffering from tuberculosis and notified cases
of puerperal fever. They assist in the work of the voluntary schools for mothers. During the year
2,147 infants were visited shortly after birth and 10,092 visits in all for the purposes mentioned
above were made.
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
The following Table shows the number of notifications of infectious disease, the number of
deaths, and the percentage of deaths to notified cases:—
Disease.
Number of
Notifications.
Number of
Deaths.
Percentage of Deaths
to Notified Cases.
Scarlet Fever
260
2
.8
Diphtheria
274
16
5.8
Enteric Fever
16
2
12.5
Erysipelas
79
3
3.8
Cerebro-Spinal
Meningitis
6
1
16.6
Measles
672
14
2.08
German Measles
154
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The age period of cases notified and the ward distribution will be found in Table II.,
with the age period of deaths in Table III., Appendix.
Diarrhoea.—One hundred deaths were registered as due to Diarrhoea or Enteritis, 73 of
which occurred during the first year of life.
Small Pox.—No case of Small Pox occurred in the Borough during the year. Twentyeight
cases were notified in London.
Puerperal Fever.—Eleven cases were notified during the year, the average annual
number being ten. There were seven deaths from this disease.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—Twenty-one cases of ophthalmia in newly born infants
were notified during the year.
Tuberculosis.—Four hundred and eignty-nine persons were notified for the first time as
suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs; and 93 as suffering from other forms of tuberculosis.
The following tables set out the Deaths from Tuberculosis and Death Rates per 1,000 of the
population, the distribution of the notified cases in the several wards of the Borough, and the
Forms of Tuberculosis in the persons notified:—