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Staff of Public Health Department.
Mr. C. E. Gessner has been promoted from Grade " A " to
Grade " B " Clerk.
Miss C. Wellings, Grade " D " Clerk, died in January, 1941.
All the Grade " A " Clerks, seven in number, have joined
the Forces and there are now only four male members of the
permanent staff of clerks, all of whom are above miliatry age,
left in the Department. There are also three Grade " D "
(female) clerks.
26 temporary clerks were employed in the Department at
the end of the year.
INFECTIVE DISEASES.
There has been an increase in the amount of infective disease
during the year, the number of notifiable diseases having risen
from 1,649 in the previous year to 3,894. Measles and Whooping
Cough are mainly responsible for this increase. There were
1,058 cases of Measles reported, compared with 230 in 1940, and
1,122 cases of Whooping Cough compared with 48.
The increase in the incidence of these two diseases has not
been accompanied by any appreciable rise in mortality, only
12 persons having died from the two diseases.
194 cases of Dysentery have been notified, compared with
31 in the previous year ; all except four of these occurred among
the inmates of two mental hospitals in the Borough ; there were
20 deaths.
Nine cases of Typhoid fever and 15 of Para-typhoid fever
were notified. Two of the former died.
75 cases of Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, with nine deaths,
occurred compared with 74 and nine in the previous year.
There has been an increase in the cases of Scabies dealt with
and 673 persons were given bathing treatment at the Council's
Cleansing Station,