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firmed. There was one death, that of an infant under one
year of age. 6 suspected cases were kept under observation,
but none of these developed the disease.
GASTRO-INTESTINAL INFECTIONS:
It will be seen that the number of gastro-intestinal infections,
namely, Typhoid or Enteric Fever and Dysentery, is the
highest recorded for the 5-year period under review.
In so far as the cases of Typhoid or Enteric Fever were
concerned, one was that of a nurse who contracted the disease
while nursing a ease of Typhoid Fever in hospital, the second,
that of a child who had recently arrived from Germany where
she had presumably contracted the disease, and the third, that
of a boy in which no definite contact could be traced, the only
suspicious feature being that he had recently returned from a
children's holiday camp where it is possible that he might have
been in contact with the disease.
The cases of Dysentery notified were either of the
Salmonella or Sonne types of Dysentery, two of the commonest
organisms associated with outbreaks of Food poisoning. These
cases were generally speaking not connected either in time or
place, excepting that 4 of the cases of Sonne Dysentery
occurred at or about the same time in one of the Day Nurseries.
In this connection a comprehensive investigation was made of
other children and of the staff, but the primary source of
infection was not ascertained. Three eases of the Salmonella
type of infection occurred at about the same time in one household,
but again the original source of infection was not discovered.
TUBERCULOSIS:
The following Table shows the notifications of tuberculosis
during the last eight years:—