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2. INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Details of the incidence of the various notifiable infectious diseases and the action
taken during the year to prevent their spread is as follows:-
ANTHRAX
No cases were notified during the year.
CHOLERA
No cases were notified during the year.
DIPHTHERIA
No cases were notified during the year.
DYSENTERY
117 cases were notified during the year of which 22 were confirmed bacteriologically.
In 21 cases the organism was Shigella Sonne and in one case Shigella Flexner.
FOOD POISONING
90 cases were notified of which 31 were confirmed bacteriologically. The organisms
were as follows:-
Salmonella Typhimurium 6
Other Salmonellae 25
INFECTIVE JAUNDICE
The number of cases notified during the year was 48 of which 17 were admitted to
hospital. In conformity with the Council's control measures public health inspectors
visited the households and gave advice on the appropriate hygiene measures which should
be adopted and arrangements were made for the patient's linen and clothing to be
disinfected by boiling or autoclaving wherever possible.
MALARIA
3 cases were notified during the year. In each case the disease was believed to
have been contracted abroad.
MEASLES
939 cases were notified during the year.
ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS AND ACUTE MENINGITIS
There were 8 cases of acute encephalitis and 7 cases of acute meningitis notified
during the year.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM
No cases were notified during the year.
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