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Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis.
3 patients were notified suffering from this disease.
1. Female, 7 years. Developed stiff neck, headache, vomiting and
delirium. Complained of pain at the back of the neck. Patient had
stayed at a sea-coast town in which there was an epidemic of the
disease. Paralysis of the left arm developed. Child was removed to
hospital. Massage and electricity eventually restored full use of the
arm.
2. Female, 8 years. Complained of severe headache and became
fretful, sick and drowsy. Child developed nasal speech. Recovered.
3. Male, 10 years. Was a case of Polioencephalitis. Shortly after
commencement of illness, developed Kernig's sign, with presence of
Babinski. Recovered.
Dysentery.
2 cases were notified. The first was a boy of 7. There was no
ex-soldier in the family. Diarrhoea and sickness followed after eating
plums. Careful enquiry failed to associate the case with any article of
food. Overcrowding prevailed in the house. The other case occurred
in a Navy man, but after observation in hospital it was reported that it
was not considered a case of Dysentery.

Prevalence of, and Control Over Infectious Diseases.
The Table giving the incidence of notifiable diseases for the year
1926 will be found elsewhere in the report. This table gives the cases
in accordance with the age groups requested by the Ministry of Health.