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During the year 1930 we had no less than three deaths from psittacosis ; there
have been none since. This is a wonderful illustration of the fact that the health
of the public is in the hands of the public ; it was only necessary for them to refrain
from buying the imported birds and the epidemic died a natural death. By the
same token when people, suffering from influenza and other infectious diseases,
refrain from travelling in crowded trains the country will be healthier, to a degree.
2. NOTIFICATION TABLES.
The following table shows the number of notifications of infectious diseases
(other than Tuberculosis) received during 1934
TABLE I.
Disease.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Total eases
removed
to
Hospital.
Deaths.
Smallpox
—
—
—
—
—
Scarlet Fever
242
283
525
487
5
Diphtheria
179
219
398
397
22
Enteric Fever (including
Para-typhoid Fever)
1
3
4
4
—
Puerperal Fever
—
2
2
2
—
Puerperal Pyrexia
—
10
10
8
2
Pneumonia :
Acute Influenzal
98
85
33
60
10
Acute Primary
88
10
Following Measles
62
L 5
Erysipelas
18
26
44
22
—
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
11
9
20
3
1
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis
1
1
2
2
—
Encephalitis Lethargica
1
—
1
—
—
Chicken-pox
241
210
451
—
—
Food Poisoning
2
2
4
—
—
Acute Polio-Encephalitis
1
—
1
1
—
Pemphigus Neonatorum
1
1
2
—
—
Totals
796
851
1647
986
56