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Dysentery.
Three cases of Dysentery were notified during the year as compared
with 10 cases during the previous year.
All the cases occurred in adults. Two were of the Sonne type,
and the attack was very mild in each case.
The third patient had Amoebic Dysentery, for which she was
treated at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases. She had but recently
returned to England from abroad, and it was considered that her
disease was contracted in Nyasaland, probably during 1933.
No cases of dysentery occurred among children, in contrast to
1935, when there were six cases.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
No case of this disease was notified during the year.
Enteric Fever.
Sixteen cases of enteric fever occurred during the year, four of
which proved fatal. Five of these cases were notified as being due
to B. Typhosus.
The age incidence is set out in the table on page 133, and it will
be seen that in nine cases the age of the patients was between 20 and
35. The patients who died were aged 22, 34, 46 and 74, respectively.
Five persons were considered to have been infected at Bournemouth.
In two instances the infection presumably took place abroad
whilst on holiday in Brittany and Scandinavia respectively. Two of
the affected persons were nurses who had been in attendance on cases
of enteric fever whilst engaged in their hospital duties (one of these
nurses succumbed to the disease). In two cases where the source of
infection could not be traced, oysters had been eaten a little time
previously, and one of these persons was already an in-patient in a
General Hospital undergoing a surgical operation. The remaining
five patients resided in the same house and the diagnosis of these cases
presented great difficulty; three were admitted to hospital. None of
these five cases terminated fatally.