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MEASLES
722 cases were notified during the year.
ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS AND ACUTE MENINGITIS
There were no cases of acute encephalitis and four cases of acute meningitis notified during the
year.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM
No cases were notified during the year.
PNEUMONIA
16 cases were notified up to 1st October, 1968, when this disease ceased to be notifiable.
POLIOMYELITIS
No cases were notified during the year, this being the fourth consecutive year in which I have to
report this happy state of affairs.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
2 cases were notified up to 1st October 1968, when this disease ceased to be notifiable.
PLAGUE
No cases were notified during the year.
SCARLET FEVER
There were 131 cases notified during the year.
SMALLPOX
No cases were notified during the year. There were 56 people who arrived by air and 14 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 137 new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 54 new cases of non-pulmonary
tuberculosis were notified. (The figures for last year were 142 and 49 respectively.)
TYPHOID FEVER
During the year one case of typhoid fever occurred.
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