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For each of the above a fee of 2/6d. is payable by the Local Authority to the
medical practitioner if the case occurs in his private practice, or 1/- if the case occurs in
his practice as medical officer of a public body or institution.
During the year 267 cases of infectious disease were notified, of which 79 were
removed to hospital. These are tabulated in the age groups (see Table No. 6, page 20).
Comparative figures of infectious disease for the years 1920-1950 are also shown (see Table
No. 7, pages 22 and 23.
Diphtheria.
Three cases were notified and were removed to hospital. One was re-diagnosed as
ulcerative stomatitis whilst in hospital. Graph No. 3, facing this page, shows a comparison
between the incidence of diphtheria and the number of persons immunized against diphtheria
during the years 1920 to 1950.
Dysentery.
Five cases were notified and removed to hospital. Three were subsequently rediagnosed
whilst in hospital, one as ulcerative colitis and two as enteritis due to salmonella
typhimurium.
Enteric Fever.
One case of paratyphoid B fever was notified. The patient was a nurse resident at
a hospital in the Borough.
Erysipelas.
Three cases were notified, all of which were nursed at home.
Food Poisoning.
Two cases originally notified as dysentery were subsequently re-diagnosed in hospital
to be suffering from enteritis due to salmonella typhimurium. In one case the patient
was a woman of 42 and in the other a girl of 18.
Measles.
One hundred and forty cases were notified, and twenty-five were removed to hospital.
Three of the cases removed to hospital were subsequently re-diagnosed as acute tonsillitis
with toxic erythema, pyrexia of unknown origin, and exanthema subitum respectively.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Two cases were notified and were removed to hospital.
Pneumonia (Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal).
Five cases were notified, and two were removed to hospital.
Acute Poliomyelitis.
Three cases were notified and removed to hospital, one case subsequently being rediagnosed
as pyrexia of unknown origin.