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Ophthalmia Neonatorum
No cases were notified during the year.
Pneumonia
31 cases were notified during the year.
Poliomyelitis
No cases were notified during the year, this being the third consecutive year
which I have to report this happy state of affairs.
Puerperal Pyrexia
14 cases were notified of which 10 were confirmed. Of the confirmed cases, 2
occurred in home confinements and 8 in hospital confinements. In order to make a true
valuation of these figures it must be remembered that the number of births in hospital
greatly exceeds home confinements and that the cases most liable to suffer from
puerperal pyrexia are usually delivered in hospital.
Plague
No cases were notified during the year.
Scarlet Fever
There were 124 cases notified during the year.
Smallpox
No cases were notified during the year. There were 23 people who arrived by air
and 6 by sea from smallpox areas without being able to produce valid certificates of
vaccination. All these were kept under daily surveillance until the fourteenth day from
the last day of possible contact.
Tuberculosis
During the year 142 new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 49 new cases of
non-pulmonary tuberculosis were notified. (The figures for last year were 131 and 32
respectively).
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