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SECTION B
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Infectious Disease
2695 cases of infectious diseases were notified during the
year. 335 cases were removed to Hospital and of this number 76
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 2619.
These figures show an increase on the previous year of
1,540 cases. This is entirely due to the fact that in the early
part of the year there was an epidemic of Measles, and there
was also an increase in the number of cases of Whooping cough
and Poliomyelitis.
Five cases of suspected Diphtheria were notified, but once
again I am pleased to report that not one of them was confirmed.
It is also pleasing to be able to report for the eleventh
year in succession, that there have been no deaths from this disease.
Contacts and carriers of Infectious Disease - Sickness Benefit.
Four certificates were issued during the year in the following
circumstances:-
(a) Male nurse who was a direct contact of a case of poliomyelitis.
(b) Male employee in a bakehouse of a food factory Who was a
contact of a case of Sonne Dysentery. He was later found
to be suffering from this disease, and was undoubtedly infected
by the first case.
(c) Female assistant in the cake department of a food factory
who was a contact of a case of Sonne Dysentery.
(d) Woman counter -hand in a Grocery & Provision Merchants'
store who was a contact of a case of Scarlet Fever.
Tuberculosis
It is with much pleasure that I am again able to report a
considerable decrease in the incidence of this disease.
The number of new cases notified during the year was only
150 as against 180 in the previous year. These figures show a
decrease of 32 in pulmonary cases but an increase of 2 in nonpulmonary
cases.
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