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PART II
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Notification of Infectious Diseases
583 cases of infectious diseases were notified during the year. 78 cases were
removed to hospital and of this number 3 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 580.
These figures show a decrease on the previous year of 1,095 cases. This is
largely due to the fact that there were many fewer cases of Measles. Whooping
Cough, Pneumonia and Dysentery showed a decrease. There was, however, a slight
rise in the number of cases of Puerperal Pyrexia and Scabies. 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
years
65 +
years
Scarlet Fever — 2 9 12 1 1 — — 25 2 — 25
Whooping Cough 4 3 3 4 — — — — 14 2 — 14
Acute Poliomyelitis (Par.) — — 1 — — — — — 11 — 1
Measles ..." ~7 28 Tl 76 8 2 — — 192 5 — 192
„ „ (Non-Par.) - - - - - - - - - - - -
Diphtheria — — — — 1 1 — — 2 2 — —
Pneumonia 4 2 2 1 1 1 4 10 25 4 — 25
Dysentery 6 2 10 12 5 5 3 144 5 — 44
A. Encephalitis (Inf.) — — — — — — — — — — — —
Enteric or Typhoid Fever — — — — — 1 — — 1 1 — —
Paratyphoid Fever — — — — — — — — — — — —
Erysipelas — — — — — 13 1 5 2 — 5
Meningococcal Infection — 2 — 1 — — — — 3 3 — 3
Food Poisoning 1 2 2 3 — 5 5 4 22 5 — 22
Puerperal Pyrexia — — — — 68 67 1 — 136 — — *136
Ophthalmia Neonatorum — — — — — — — — — — — —
Smallpox — — — — — — — — — — — —
Malaria — — — — — 1 — — — 1
Scabies 1 — 4 9 8 6 4 2 34 — — 34
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) — — 2 1 12 23 23 7 68 39 — 68
(Non-Pulmonary) — — 1 — 2 6 1 — 10 6 — 10
Totals 23 41 105 119 106 120 44 25583 78 — 580
* Of this total only 52 cases related to patients residing in the Borough.