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Small-Pox.
No cases of Small-Pox were notified during the year.
Scarlet Fever.
951 persons were notified as suffering from this disease during the
year under report as compared with a total of 747 for the previous year.
Included in this total are 17 nurses on the staff of the South-Eastern
Hospital, and also 10 patients who, after removal to hospital, were
certified to be not suffering from the disease in question.
There were 13 deaths as compared with 2, 9 and 3 in the three
preceding years.
Diphtheria.
The total number of patients certified to be suffering from Diphtheria
was 363 as compared with a total of 315 for the previous year. Of
this number 19 were errors of diagnosis, and 22 were nurses on the
staff of the South-Eastern Hospital.
There were 13 deaths as compared with 21,16 and 12 for the three
preceding years.
Enteric Fever.
Nine cases of Enteric Fever were notified, as compared with 11 in
the previous year, One case was certified, after removal to hospital,
to be not suffering from this disease, but from acute lobar pneumonia.
There were two deaths.
Acute Primary Pneumonia and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
These diseases are compulsorily notifiable under the Public Health
(Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery, etc., Regulations), 1918.
47 cases were notified during the year.
Puerperal Fever.
Eleven cases of Puerperal Fever were notified as compared with 18
in the previous year. There were 4 deaths.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Nineteen cases were notified during the year. These were visited
by the Health Visitors, and, where necessary, by a Ranyard Nurse, in
accordance with the Council's scheme for the provision of nursing
assistance. Six cases were admitted to hospitals.