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Pneumonia. All primary pneumonias, lobar or lobular, are notifiable.
The only secondary pneumonia which is notifiable is influenzal pneumonia.

Nursing Provision. By arrangement with the Chelsea District Nursing
Association, all cases of Pneumonia receive adequate nursing attention
where the circumstances render this necessary.
Malaria. The Regulations provide that the Medical Officer of Health
shall take all practical steps to ensure that persons suffering from malaria
are supplied with sufficient mosquito netting; receive adequate quinine
treatment during the attack and subsequently; and receive appropriate
advice as to precautions necessary to prevent the spread of the disease.
In the one case of malaria notified in 1925, it was not necessary to
take the action contemplated under the Regulations of 1919.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Three cases of Puerperal fever were notified during the year. One
of these was a patient already under treatment in a Maternity Hospital
where she subsequently died. The other two cases were removed to
M.A.B. Hospitals as soon as the disease was diagnosed. One of these
cases recovered.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Eleven cases of ophthalmia neonatorum were notified during the
year. Seven of these cases were treated in hospital, including two cases
born in hospital. In tabular form is shown below, as required by the
Ministry of Health, the result of each case:—

Fifteen cases of the disease were notified in 1921, four in 1922, and
five in each of the years 1923 and 1924.