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(6) Single cases:
Agent identified:
Salmonella 1
Unknown 22
(7) Salmonella infections, not foodborne Nil
Measles.
One thousand, eight hundred and forty-seven cases were notified
during the year, eleven of which were admitted to hospital.
No deaths were recorded, and the illness was, generally speaking,
mild in character with few complications.
Meningococcal Infections.
Only one case occurred in the area during 1961, and this was
admitted to hospital.
Pneumonia.
Forty-three cases of pneumonia were notified in 1961, as against
fourteen in 1960, two of these cases were admitted to hospital and
the remainder home nursed. There were fifty deaths attributed to
this disease. This latter figure includes people who are normally
resident in the district, but who died outside the Urban District area.
Scarlet Fever.
Eighteen cases were recorded in 1961, one being removed to
hospital and the remainder home nursed. Notifications of this disease
dropped sharply when compared with the 112 cases which came to
knowledge during 1960. No deaths from this disease were recorded
and there were no "return" cases.
Smallpox and Vaccination.
No cases of smallpox occurred in the area, neither was it necessary
to keep any contacts under surveillance during the year.
The staff of the Public Health Department are vaccinated against
smallpox from year to year, a precaution which was to prove valuable
in the investigations during the early part of 1962, following the
importation into this country in December, 1961, of cases of smallpox
from Pakistan.
Persons travelling to certain countries abroad must furnish themselves
with International Certificates of Vaccination. These must be
stamped in the Department and 457 were dealt with in 1961.
The County Medical Officer informs me that a total of 1,101
residents in the Urban District received primary vaccination and 12
re-vaccination during the year.