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SECTION VI— INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
(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
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.
NOTIFICATIONS DURING THE YEAR.
The total number of notifications, excluding duplicates, was 343.
Of this figure, 49 were notifications of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and
5 of Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis.
As compared with the previous year, there was a decrease of 50 in the
number of notifications of Diphtheria. The number of notifications of
Scarlet Fever (13) represents a decrease ol36, as compared with that
for 1933. The number of notifications of Tuberculosis was 54, a decrease
of 26 as compared with that for 1939
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 :—