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PART II
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Notification of Infectious Diseases
1,687 cases of infectious diseases were notified during the year. 128 cases
were removed to hospital and of this number 12 were notified on discharge as not
having suffered from the condition originally notified. As a result, the corrected
number of cases of notifiable infectious diseases for the year was 1,675.
These figures show an increase on the previous year of 656 cases. This is
largely due to the fact that there were many more cases of Measles. Scarlet Fever,
Pneumonia and Dysentry showed a decrease, and there was also a considerable
decrease in the number of cases of Whooping Cough. Full details are given under
age groups in the following table: —
Diseases
Notifications
Total cases
notified
Cases
removed to
Hospital
Deaths
Corrected
Figures
0—1
year
1—2
years
2-5
years
5—15
years
15—25
years
25—45
years
45—65
vears
65+
years
Age
not
known
Scarlet Fever — 2 9 13 2 — — — — 26 8 — 24
Whooping Cough 3 5 10 3 — — — — — 21 — — 21
Acute Poliomyelitis (Par.) — — — — — 1 — — — 1 1 — —
,, ,, (Non-Par.) — — — 1 — — — — — 1 1 — 1
Measles 52 184 507 416 12 15 1 — — 1,187 42 — 1,187
Diphtheria — — 1 2 1 — — — — 4 4 — —
Pneumonia 5 2 6 6 — 8 9 8 — 44 14 59 44
Dysentery 6 10 26 39 9 18 5 4 — 117 17 — 114
A. Encephalitis (Inf.) — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Enteric or Typhoid Fever — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Paratyphoid Fever — — — — 2 — — — — 2 2 —
Erysipelas — — — — 1 1 2 1 — 5 1 — 5
Meningococcal Infection — — — — — — 1 — — 11 — 1
Food Poisoning 2 1 3 13 6 10 4 2 — 41 9 — 40
Puerperal Pyrexia — — — — — 52 63 — — 115 — — *115
Ophthalmia Neonatorum — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Smallpox — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Malaria — — — — — — 1 — — 1 1 — 1
Scabies — — 2 6 5 3 3 — — 19 — — 19
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) — 2 — 2 16 30 28 9 — 87 24 4 87
(Non-Pulmonary) — — 1 1 3 6 4 — — 15 3 1 15
Totals 68 206 565 502 57 144 121 24 — 1 687 128 64 1,675
* Of this total only 43 cases related to patients residing in the Borough.