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46
Year
Number of Cases
Number of Deaths
1935 188 1
1936 126 4
1937 107 2
1938 101 3
1939 58 2
1940 27 2
1941 35 0
1942 19 1
1943 24 2
1944 10 0
1945 13 0
1946 6 0
1947 6 1
1948 1 0
1949 0 0
Dysentery.
One case in a van driver developed in February. It was of
a severe and rare form —Schmitz type. No clue was obtained as to
the source and there were no further cases.
There was one further case in a baby in the early summer,
and it is probable that some of the cases of gastro enteritis were in
fact dysenteric infections.
Erysipelas.
Four cases were notified during the year. Two were treated
in Hospital. All were mild and recovered.
Gastro enteritis.
In Finsbury Zymotic enteritis in those under 2 is a notifiable
disease. During the year notifications were received and accepted
in respect of six cases (one subsequently withdrawn), and 17 other
cases also came to the notice of the Department making a total of
22 cases in all.
Of these cases 5 were in adults and 2 in children aged 5. These
cases were treated in Hospital, but there were no deaths. The
other 15 cases occurred in children under 2. Unsatisfactory home
conditions have undoubtedly an influence on the development of the
disease; they were discovered in 11 of the cases. It seems that at
the present time there is not a great seasonal variation as the cases
were distributed (as far as can be ascertained having regard to the