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Enteric Fever.
One case of Typhoid Fever and one case of Paratyphoid
Fever were notified during the year. Both were removed to
L.C.C. Hospitals.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Fourteen cases were notified during the year of which
nine were from the Corporation Maternity Home where eight
were isolated and treated. Two cases were removed to Bow
Arrow Hospital, one to County Hospital, Farnborough, and
one to an L.C.C. Hospital and two were isolated at home.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Two cases were notified, one'was removed to White Oak
Hospital and the other was treated at home.
Analysis of Cases.-
(a) Vision was unimpaired 2
(b) Vision was impaired —
(c) Vision was lost
(d) The patient died
(e) The patient was still under treatment at the end of
the year.
(f) The patient removed from the district
(g) Classification under the above heads cannot be
made (details of these cases should be attached) —
Measles.
358 cases were notified. Four were removed to Hospital,
two to Bow Arrow Hospital, and two to other hospitals.
There were no deaths.
Whooping Cough (Pertussis).
Fifty-nine cases were notified. None of these was removed
to hospital. There was one death.
Deaths attributable to this disease average over a thousand
per annum in England and Wales.
Given a potent vaccine a reduction of the attack rate to
about one-third and a substantial reduction in mortality may
well be expected. In the past many vaccines have been put
on the market without much regard to their potency as a
• result of the many technical difficulties involved. At the
present time considerable research is taking place in an
endeavour to produce the perfect immunising agent and field
tests on a large scale are taking place in many districts.
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