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22 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
17 cases of this disease occurred and seven of them died.
Two other cases were notified, but as they were found, after
further investigation, to be suffering from some other disease,
they are not included in these figures.
This is a decrease compared with 1925, when there were 19
cases with 11 deaths.
Malaria.
Six cases were notified, four males and two females.
Dysentery.
Three cases of Dysentery were notified and one death was
registered.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
The Public Health (Ophthalmia Neonatorum) Regulations,
1926, which came into force on 1st October, revoke those of 1914
by abolishing the dual system of notification by the medical
attendant and by the midwife. Responsibility of notifying these
cases now rests with the medical attendant.
37 cases were notified and the following Table shows the
effect of the disease on the vision in 36 of the cases, according as
to whether the cases were treated at hospital or at home. The
remaining case died from Pneumonia.