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POLIOMYELITIS
No cases were notified during the year, this being the fifth consecutive year in
which I have to report this happy state of affairs.
PLAGUE
No cases were notified during the year.
SCARLET FEVER
There were 109 cases notified during the year.
SMALLPOX
No cases were notified during the year. There were 51 people who arrived by air and
4 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 150 new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 56 new cases of nonpulmonary
tuberculosis were notified. (The figures for last year were 137 and 54
respectively).
TYPHOID FEVER
No cases were notified during the year.
PARATYPHOID FEVER
During the year 3 cases of paratyphoid fever occurred.
Two of the cases were in one family; a three-month-old boy and his sister aged
7 years. seven contacts were kept under surveillance and the usual exclusion measures
were carried out. There were no further cases in the home. It transpired that the
three-month-old boy was a "carrier".
The third case was a three-month-old girl who although she became ill before the
previous two cases may have been infected through contact with that family. Five contacts
were kept under surveillance and no further cases developed.
WHOOPING COUGH
There were 46 cases notified during the year.
Full statistical information is set out in table 1 at the end of this report.
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