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7
SECTION B
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Infectious Disease.
Only 1,155 cases of infectious diseases were notified in the
Borough during the year. 167 cases were removed to Hospital
and of this number 39 were notified on discharge as not having
suffered from the disease originally notified. As a result, the
corrected number of cases of notifiable infectious disease for the
year was 1,116.
These figures show the considerable decrease on the previous
year of 696 cases. This decrease is almost entirely due to the
fact that once again there was no epidemic of measles and the
number of cases of whooping cough notified was 276 less.
Six cases of suspected diphtheria were notified but once
again I am pleased to report that not one of them was confirmed.
It affords me much satisfaction to be able to report that for
the tenth year in succession I do not have to record any deaths
from this disease.
Contacts and Carriers of Infectious Disease—Sickness
Benefit.
Five Certificates were issued during the year in the following
circumstances: —
(a) Woman employee (Post Office Sorter) who was a contact
of a suspected case of Typhoid.
(b) Woman cleaner in a children's ward at a hospital who
was a contact of Chicken Pox.
(c) Cook at a Bakery who was a contact of a case of Sonne
Dysentery.
(d) Bus Conductress who was a contact of a case of Para-
Typhoid and was found to be suffering from this
infection. She was in fact infected by the first
case.
(e) Domestic in a Ward of Maternity Hospital who was a
contact of a case of Scarlet Fever.
Tuberculosis.
It is with much pleasure that I am able to report a considerable
decrease in the incidence of this disease.
The number of new cases notified during the year was only
180 as against 215 in the previous year. These figures show a
decrease of 31 in pulmonary cases and 4 in non-pulmonary cases.