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died on the 4th day in hospital, and the remainder were discharged
after an average stay of 22.7 days, the conditions from
which they had been suffering being as follows
Paratyphoid fever (B) 1
Dysentery (Sonne) 1
Broncho pneumonia 1
Pyrexia of unknown origin 1
DYSENTERY.
9 cases notified as suffering from capillary dysentery were
admitted during the year and 8 of these were discharged,
leaving one in hospital on December 31st. Of the discharged
patients one had been suffering from enteritis, while another
was found to be a carrier of Sonne bacilli. The remaining
six were found to be suffering from capillary dysentery
(Sonne) and as there was a further case of this infection
among the patients notified as ? Typhoid Fever, there were in
all 7 cases of dysentery discharged during 1937, the average
stay in hospital being 28 days.
MEASLES.
39 cases notified as measles were admitted during the
year. Two died and 35 were discharged, leaving two in
hospital at the end of the year.
In the case of one of the deaths—that of an out-district
patient who died within a few hours of admission—a post
mortem examination was carried out. This confirmed that
the cause of death was measles complicated by broncho
pneumonia. The other death, which occurred on the 7th day
of the patient's stay in hospital, was also due to measles and
broncho pneumonia.