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SECTION B
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Infectious Diseases
1,237 cases of Infectious diseases were notified during the year,
211 cases were removed to hospital, and of this number 36 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 1,201.
These figures show a decrease on the previous year of 1,418 cases.
This is because there was no measles epidemic and there was a decrease
In the number of cases of Poliomyelitis, Scarlet Pever and Pneumonia,
although there was a slight Increase in the number of cases of Whooping
Cough and Dysentery.
Two cases of suspected Diphtheria were notified, but once again I
am pleased to report that neither of them was confirmed.
It is also pleasing to be able to report for the twelfth year in
succession, that there have been no deaths from this disease.
Contacts and Carriers of Infectious Disease - Sickness Benefit.
One certificate was Issued during the year in the following circumstances:
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Male employee in a cake department of a food factor Who was a
direct family contact of a case of Paralytic Poliomyelitis.
Tuberculosis.
During the year there was a slight Increase in the Incidence of
this disease.
The number of new cases notified during the year was 165 as compared
with 150 in the previous year. These figures show an increase
of 21 In pulmonary cases but a decrease of 6 in non-pulmonary cases
In the Statistical Supplement will be found a chart showing the
numbers of new cases notified during the past 20 years.
Tuberculosis still remains a serious menace to public health,
and is affecting the age groups which are vital to the productive abllity
of the nation, and despite the fact that high priority is given
by the housing authorities in rehousing tuberculous persons, the housing
shortage still results in serious delay In obtaining satisfactory
hones at the right rent for the tuberculous and their families.
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