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Disease.
Notifications.
Removed
to
Hospital.
Diagnosis
not Confirmed.
Hagnosis
Established.
Dysentery
Encephalitis
Erysipelas
Food Poisoning
Malaria (origin abroad)
Measles
Paratyphoid
Pneumonia—
Acute Primary
Influenzal
Poliomyelitis—
Paralytic
Non-Paralytic
Puerperal Pyrexia
Scabies
Scarlet Fever
Whooping Cough
12
1
1
25
1
552
2
6
5
6
40
22
15
63
6
1
-
8
1
27
2
1
1
4
40
-
3
3
1
-
-
-
1
-
-
2
1
12
1
1
24
1
552
2
6
5
5
-
40
22
13
62
Smallpox.
No case of smallpox occurred in the City during 1957. There were as
usual numerous cases of persons who had been in contact with smallpox—
in most cases outside this country. The necessary preventive measures
were taken.
Influenza.
Influenza was epidemic during September and October. The illness
is not notifiable, but from conversations with general practitioners and
other medical officers in the City it is apparent that the infection began
among school children, spreading to the adult population after about two
weeks. About 30 per cent, of the population appear to have been affected.
In most cases the illness was mild; only 5 cases of confirmed influenzal
pneumonia were notified. Seven deaths were registered as being caused
by influenza. One was that of a young woman, aged 20 years, who died
suddenly of influenzal pneumonia after an illness of four days. The
other deaths were of persons aged more than 45 years.