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PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Table 1 on Pago 7 of this Report gives details of
all cases of infectious disease notified during the year.
The total of 595 shows an appreciable increase over that of
the previous year, which was 493. This increase is accounted
for by a rise in the number of cases of Whooping Cough, and by
a small increase in the number of cases of Measles.
Diphtheria.
For the second year in succession no cases of
Diphtheria occurred in the district.
Scarlet Fever.
Notifications of this disease wore slightly lower
than in 1949 - 40 as against 54. The type of disease was mild,
and admission to. Hospital was necessary only in 18 cases.
Measles.
The number of cases of Measles reported during the
year rose slightly from 304 in 1949 to 327 in 1950. Here again
the type of disease was mild, admission to Hospital being
necessary in only 4 coses.
Whooping Cough.
During the past year there was a substantial increase
in the number of cases, of Whooping Cough - 151 notifications
being received, as compared with 59 in 1949. The disease was
however, of a mild type, and no deaths resulted. In 5 cases
only was Hospital treatment necessary.
Polio-myelitis.
As noted in the introduction to the Report, 5 cases
occurred during the year - 2 females aged l½- and 23 years
respectively, and 3 males aged 6 years, 24 years and 28 years.
There was 1 death - the man aged 24 years. The other cases
all made a good recovery, the boy aged 6 years having no
paralysis, and the remaining 3 only a slight paralysis.
Tuberculosis.
35 new cases of Tuberculosis were notified during
the year, 34 pulmonary and 1 non-pulmonary. A further 20
persons, previously notified in other areas, took up residence
in this district. There were 4 deaths from pulmonary Tuberculosis
- 3 male and 1 female, and 2 deaths from non-pulmonary - 2 male.
The death-rate from Tuberculosis was 0.12, per 1000 of the
population, as compared with 0.21 for the previous year.
Scabies.
The arrangements made in 1945 (following the closing
down of the Scabies Clinic set up by the Council during the war)
whereby infected persons were treated as out-patients at the
Isolation Hospital, came to an end during the year.
Those cases which wore reported were supplied with
material and treated themselves at home.
In one persistent cose, where facilities at the home
were insufficient, arrangements were made for treatment to be
given at the Cleansing Station of an adjoining authority.
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