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There were 41 deaths attributed to pneumonia, but this figure
includes people who are normally resident in the Urban District
and who died outside the area.
Scarlet Fever.
27 cases were notified compared with 63 in 1960. This disease
is now of a very mild nature, but 7 cases were removed to isolation
hospital.
No deaths from this disease were recorded.
In the year 1936, there were 162 cases notified, of which 138
were sufficiently serious to be removed to hospital.
Smallpox and Vaccination.
Notification was received that three persons had travelled on
a ship from a foreign port in which a case of Smallpox had been
discovered. The usual procedure of placing these suspected contacts
under surveillance for 16 days was put into effect after their
arrival in this district.
The staff of the Public Health Department are vaccinated
against Smallpox from year to year, a precaution which was to
prove valuable in the investigations during the early part of 1962,
following the importation into this country in December, 1961,
of cases of Smallpox from Pakistan.
Persons travelling to certain countries abroad must furnish
themselves with International Certificates of Vaccination. These
must be stamped in the Department and 482 were dealt with in
1961.
The County Medical Officer informs me that a total of 1,058
residents in the area received primary vaccination and 14 re-vaccination
in 1961.
Tuberculosis.
The following table shows the position with regard to tuberculosis,
with comparative figures for the past 10 years (as corrected
by inward and outward transfers).
In other parts of this report comparison was made to conditions
in 1936. No sharper contrast could be found than those
revealed by the statistics for tuberculosis. In that year 65 new
cases were reported. In the post war period, 119 were recorded
in 1948. Thereafter, a rapid decrease was seen and the figure
for 1961 shows a further spectacular drop to 17.
There were six deaths from tuberculosis during the year.