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Food Poisoning.
A total of forty-five cases were notified in 1962, one being admitted
to hospital. All were single cases. There were no outbreaks of this
disease.
Salmonella was isolated in one case.
No deaths from this disease were recorded.
The following is a copy of the annual return forwarded to the
Ministry of Health:
Notifications (corrected).
(1) First Quarter 12
Second Quarter 10
Third Quarter 18
Fourth Quarter 5
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(2) Cases otherwise ascertained Nil
(3) Symptomless Excreters Nil
(4) Fatal Cases Nil
(5) Particulars of outbreaks:
No. of cases notified Nil
No. of cases otherwise ascertained Nil
Agent identified:
Staphylococci Nil
CI. Welchii Nil
(6) Single cases:
Agent identified:
Salmonella 1
Unknown 44
(7) Salmonella infections, not foodborne Nil
Measles.
As was expected after a year of heavy incidence of this disease,
notifications fell sharply during 1962, only 253 cases being brought to
our knowledge, as against 1,847 in 1961. None of these cases was
admitted to hospital and no deaths were recorded.
Meningococcal Infections.
No cases occurred in the area during 1962, there was, however,
one death from this disease, the person concerned being temporarily
resident outside the district when death occurred.
Pneumonia.
Twenty-nine cases of pneumonia were notified in 1962, as against
forty-three in the previous year. Four of these cases were admitted
to hospital and the remainder home nursed. There were fifty-seven
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.