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Membranous Croup.
No notification of this disease was received during the year
under report.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
There were 19 cases of this disease notified during the year.
Under this heading is included every kind of "sore eyes"
occurring in the newly born. They were all visited by the
Health Visitor, who instructed the mother to immediately seek
medical advice.
Cerebrospinal Meningitis.
15 cases were notified in 1916, but very few of them were
genuine cases of the epidemic form. Most of them consisted of
the sporadic form known as posterior-basic meningitis. Ten of
them, as is usual, occurred in children under one year of age.
Polio-Myelitis.
12 cases were notified in 1916, against 2 in 1915. None of
the cases were of the epidemic form as no secondary cases
occurred in any of the houses attacked.
Bacteriological Laboratory.
The total number of specimens examined in 1916 was 689,
as compared with 919 in 1915, and 1,087 in 1914.
Table C.
Results of Examination.
Total
Examinations.
Nature of Specimen.
Positive.
Negative.
1915
1916
1915
1915
1916
1916
Diphtheria (specimens taken by
Medical Officer of Health)
326
311
308
321
15
13
Ditto (taken by general
practitioners)
259
195
41
43
218
152
Diphtheria (total specimens taken)
585
516
56
56
529
460
Phthisis
321
282
92
61
229
221
Enteric
9
4
6
1
3
3
Various
4
4
5
5
-
-
919
807
118
Total specimens taken
154
765
689