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PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND
OTHER-DISEASES
Notifiable diseases. The number of notifications received, after
correction,- (showing the previous year's figures in brackets) were:
Diphtheria 39 (51; Scarlet Fever 157 (238); Erysipelas 31 (3l);
Puerperal Fever 8 (8); Puerperal Pyrexia 14 (17); Cerebro-Spinal
Meningitis 11 (8); Ophthalmia Neonatorum 4 (14); Tuberculosis of
Respiratory system 241 (209) ; Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis 22 (22);
Measles 814 (1,153); Pneumonia 53 (70); Diarrhoea (under 2 yrs. of
age) 33 (68); Whooping Cough 227 (l60); Dysentery 13 (75);
Scabies 312 (450); Food Poisoning 5 (-); Encephalitis
Lethargica 1 (-); Poliomyelitis 3 (-); Malaria 2 (-); Paratyphoid
"B" 1 (-).
Smallpox. Contacts of cases of smallpox numbering 20 were kept under
observation during the year but no case occurred in the borough.
Diphtheria Immunisation. The number of sessions held was 120, and
2505 new cases attended, a total of 10,379 attendances being made.
By the end of the year 13,549 children had been immunised since the
beginning of the campaign in 1934.
Cancer. The percentage of deaths from this cause was 17.4, a slight
increase compared with last year.
Tuberculosis. The death rate from this cause was 0.77 (pulmonary
0.67, and non-pulmonary 0.10). During the year 241 notifications
of pulmonary and 22 of non-pulmonary were received.
At the Dispensary 4,585 attendances wore made including 957
cases who attended for the first time; 133 were referred for
institutional treatment.
Vaccination. The annual return furnished to the Ministry of Health
showed that 64.9 per cent of the children born in 1945 had been
successfully vaccinated by 31st January, 1947.
Disinfection. 284 rooms were disinfected after infectious disease,
and 2,258 articles were treated. 7,774 dressing gowns and blankets
from the Maternity Home and Day Nurseries were sterilised. Owing
to difficulty in arranging for the necessary laundry work to be carried
out for the Maternity Home and Day Nurseries, extra staff were engaged
and as from September all linen, towels, etc. were laundered at the
Disinfecting Station.
Foot Clinic. This clinic has been open for 11 sessions per week,
and reached the total of 3,136 attendances.
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