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PNEUMONIA
During the year 129 cases of pneumonia were notified, a decrease of 42 compared with the
previous year and the lowest number notified since the disease was made notifiable in 1919.
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The woman sanitary inspector paid visits to cases of non-notifiable disease on information
received from the headteachers of schools that the children were absent, as follows:—
Scarlet Fever suspects 42
Whooping Cough 35
Scabies 60
Sore Throats 85
Total 222
The Table on page 35 gives information as to the number of non-notifiable infectious disease
cases visited on behalf of the Council by the District Nursing Association.
FOOD POISONING
Two cases of food poisoning were notified during the year, details of which were as follows:—
1. Male, aged 59 years, lodging at a hostel in the Borough. No other cases of illness
reported from the hostel, where the patient only had bread and butter and tea. He died in
hospital a week after the onset of his symptoms and it was concluded that he must have been
given or picked up some contaminated food.
2. Female, aged 16 years, a member of the staff of an infectious disease hospital. No
suspicious food, other than some cooked ham, could be traced, but other members of the staff
who partook of the same ham showed no signs of illness. Diarrhoea persisted for four days
and B. aertryche was isolated. The recovery was uneventful.
CANCER
The 275 deaths classified as Cancer occurred as follows:—
TABLE 32
Organ Affected.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Digestive Organs and Peritoneum
147
80
67
Respiratory Organs
36
26
10
Buccal cavity and Pharynx
6
6
—
Breast
29
—
29
Uterus
17
—
17
Genito-Urinary Organs (males)
17
17
—
Other Organs
23
16
7
Totals
275
145
130
Classification.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Carcinoma
268
140
128
Sarcoma
3
2
1
Epithelioma
—
—
—
Not defined
4
3
1
Totals
275
145
130