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Malaria.
No case of Malaria was notified during the year.
One death from Malaria induced in a mental patient was recorded
during the year.
Dysentery.
Two notifications were received. Both cases were treated in hospitals.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
A complete summary of cases notified and visited is given in the
Section of this Report dealing with Maternity and Child Welfare, page 122.
Altered Diagnosis Cases.
85 patients who had been notified as suffering from infectious disease
were later certified to be suffering from some condition other than that
which was notified:—
32 Scarlet Fever; 49 Diphtheria; 2 Puerperal Pyrexia, altered
to Puerperal Sepsis; 1 Encephalitis Lethargica; 1 Smallpox.l
The final diagnosis in the 32 Scarlet Fever cases was:—
Erythema 3
Measles and German Measles 6
Diphtheria and Vincents Angina 1
Tonsillitis 2
Pharyngitis 1
Disease not specified *19
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* These were reported "Negative case," "Not notifiable," etc.
The final diagnosis in the 49 Diphtheria cases was
Tonsillitis 11
Pharyngitis 2
Laryngitis 2
Measles (with Tonsillitis 1) 2
Scarlet Fever 1
Nasal Catarrh 1
Disease not specified *30
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