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Acute Polio-Myelitis or Polio-Encephalitis.
One case was notified during the period under report and commenced
on November 9th with symptons of headache, localised
paralysis, drowsiness, twichings. It is to be noted that the majority of
cases occur in children and young people under 15 years of age;
the mortality in these is about 13 per cent. and the permanently
damaged form about 50 per cent. of the total.
Plague.
No case of plague occurred during the year.
At the end of the year 1910 the Local Government Board issued
an order relating to the Prevention of Epidemic Diseases, Regulations
as to Plague and Destruction of Rats.
The Medical Officer of the Local Government Board prepared a
Memorandum on Plague, and recommended precautions against rats,
the most important of which are as follows:—1st. Persistently and
systematically destroy all rats. 2nd. Remove and obliterate their nests,
burrows and habitual haunts. 3rd. Make each dwelling as far as
practicable rat-proof, and remove all known harbourage for rats in or
near dwellings. 4th. At the same time do not allow waste of food
(whether for human beings, chickens or other animals) to accumulate
in or about the house."
Chicken Pox.
This disease was not notifiable in 1914, and there were no deaths,
although a fair number of cases occurred amongst school children.
Anthrax, and Hydrophobia in Man.
No cases of the above diseases were notified during the year.
Glanders.
No cases of Glanders were notified during the year.
Continued and Typhus Fever.
No cases of continued fever were notified during the year.
We have had no case of typhus fever since 1903, when we had
one case, and in 1901 we had eight cases.