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This figure of 592 is, I am persuaded, higher than it should be,
and I hope that the introduction of an evening clinic will enable
us to deal with many cases who cannot attend during the day and
enable us still further to reduce this figure.
For comparative purposes it is interesting to note that when I
came to Barking in 1927 there were 946 cases on this Register.
(g) Enteric Fever.—Five cases of enteric fever were noticed
during the year, four of which were removed to hospital.
(h) Puerperal Fever.—Three cases were notified during the
year; two were admitted to hospital and recovered.
(i) Puerperal Pyrexia.—Ten cases were notified during the
year. All of the cases recovered.
(j) Erysipelas.—40 cases were notified during the year computed
with 36 during 1929. Six patients were removed to hospital.
(k) Chicken-Pox.—In view of the prevalence of smallpox in
surrounding districts, chicken-pox was made a notifiable disease in
the district in April, 1928, and continued to be notifiable throughout
1930. A total of 288 cases were notified during the year,
compared with 414 during 1929.
Sex.—132 were male and 156 female.
45. NON-NOTIFIABLE ACUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASES,
(a) Measles, etc.—The most important of these are mesles,
whooping cough and summer diarrhoea. There were no serious
epidemics of these diseases, and the deaths registered were as
follows:—
Measles 19
Whooping Cough 2
Summer Diarrhoea 7