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(a) Infectious Diseases Generally.
DISEASES COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE IN THE
BOROUGH.
Acute Poliomyelitis. Diphtheria.
Acute Polio-encephalitis. Membranous Croup.
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica. Dysentery.
Acute Primary Pneumonia. Erysipelas.
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia. Malaria.
Cerebro-spinal Fever. Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
S Chicken Pox. Pyrexia.
Plague. Relapsing Fever.
Anthrax. Small-pox.
Glanders. Typhus Fever.
Hydrophobia. Tuberculosis.
Cholera. Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.
Continued Fever. Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. Measles.
Food Poisoning. Whooping Cough.
X Not notifiable from 4.1.1939
NOTIFICATIONS DURING THE YEAR.
The total number of notifications, excluding duplicates, was 342.
Of this figure, 45 were notifications of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and
5 of Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis. In addition, 22 cases of Measles
(including German Measles), came to the knowledge of the Department,
mainly through the School Authority.
As compared with the previous year, there was a decrease of 103 in the
number of notifications of Diphtheria. The number of notifications of
Scarlet Fever (49) represents a decrease of 32 as compared with that
for 1935. The number of notifications of Tuberculosis was 80, a decrease
of as coinpajed with that for 1938
Table No. 40 shows the total number of cases of infectious disease
notified during the year, the distribution by age-groups, and the number
of cases treated in hospitals. The notifications have not been corrected
for any subsequent revision of diagnosis :—