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Infective Diseases
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Measles.
The number of cases notified during the year was 2,969,
compared with 2,668 in 1948, 1,241 in 1947, and 1,997 in 1946.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
During the year 23 cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
No case of this disease occurred, but there were four deaths
from acute infectious encephalitis.
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis.
(Cerebro-spinal Fever, Meningococcal Meningitis, " Spotted
Fever ").
Ten confirmed cases were notified or reported. There were
two deaths. A number of other cases were reported but were
subsequently not confirmed. In the previous year ten confirmed
cases were notified with three deaths.
Poliomyelitis and Polio-encephalitis.
There were 89 cases of this disease notified or reported during
the year and 58 were subsequently confirmed. This figure shows
an increase of 43 cases over the total for 1948, but it was less than
the number notified during the epidemic of 1947.
Four of the 58 cases died. One death also occurred of a case
which had been notified in 1947.
Dysentery.
Seventy-one cases were notified or reported during the year,
38 being from institutions. Ten cases were subsequently held not
to be dysentery.
Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fever.
Six cases were reported during the year, four of which were
subsequently confirmed as typhoid and one as para-typhoid.
Diagnosis was not confirmed in the remaining case. There were no
deaths.