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personal contact and the infection is from case-to-case. These
mild and missed cases are the main sources of infection.
Erysipelas was notified on 36 occasions. The cases call for
no comment.
Acute Poliomyelitis was notified twice.
Encephalitis Letharyica was notified on 0 occasions.
Pneumonia.—Forty-two notifications were received of this
acute infectious disease. Many cases of the disease were not
notified by the doctors in attendance. Towards the end of the
year some of the cases of pneumonia were secondary to influenza.
Puerperal Fever.—There were only 2 notifications of this
disease during the year. This speaks highly for the care of the
doctors and midwives who attend confinement cases.
Ophthalmia neonatorum.—This acute inflammation of the
eyes of newly-born children was notified on 6 occasions. The
condition is generally gonorrhoeal. The Health Visitors visited
the cases. No child lost its sight in consequence of this terrible
infection, which is one of the common causes of blindness.
Tuberculosis.— During the year 132 cases of tuberculosis were
notified. Although the administrative control of this disease is
in the hands of the Middlesex County Council, we take every
opportunity of disinfecting those houses from which a case of
tuberlosis has gone, and offer disinfection also from time to time
during the illness. During the year 113 rooms which had been
occupied by tuberculous people were disinfected and 874 articles
were sterilised by steam.
Disinfection.— During the year 1,029 rooms at 982 houses
were disinfected by sulphur or formalin, and 19,654 articles were
passed through the Council's steam disinfector. In addition to
these, 234 articles were destroyed after infectious diseases.
Note.—The attack-rates of the population of Hornsey from
certain infectious diseases have been worked out for the last
twenty years and arc given in Table K. in the appendix.