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Malaria.
No cases of Malaria were notified during the year.
Dysentery.
Three cases were notified and were treated in hospital. In one instance
the diagnosis was not confirmed. In another instance the case was a
relapse from an attack during the previous year connected with a small
outbreak referred to in the annual report for 1934. There were no deaths.
In addition to the above, 3 fatal cases occurred in mental hospitals
outside London, but the cases were not notified to this authority.
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 113.
Altered Diagnosis Cases.
123 patients who had been notified and removed to hospitals as
suffering from infectious disease were later certified to be suffering from
some condition other than that which was notified:—
28 Scarlet Fever; 85 Diphtheria; 6 Puerperal Pyrexia (4 altered
to Puerperal Sepsis); 1 Cerebro-Spinal Fever; 1 Enteric
Fever; 1 Paratyphoid Fever; and 1 Dysentery.

* These were reported "Not notifiable," etc.