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7-?acteriolop;ical Work.
Bacillus
found„
Bacillus
not found.
Total.
Diphtheria.
County Laboratory.
5
30
35
Diphtheria.
Clinical Research
Assoc iation.
–
4
4
Tuberculosis.
Couhty Laboratory.
12
46
58
Typhoid Fever.
Government Laboratory.
1
57
58
Paratyphoid Fever,
County Laboratory..
1
1
Haemolytic
streptococcus.
County Laboratory.
–
2
2
Meningococcus.
County Laboratory.
–
5
5
19
144
163
Four samples of water from dwellinghouses in the district were
analysed during the year and in each case the water was satisfactory.
A sample of water from a disused well was found "to be not
satisfactory.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (other than Tuberculosis)
during the year 1941.
Disease
Total cases
notified.
Cases admitted
to Hospitals.
Total
deaths.
Scarlet Fever
11
9
–
Diphtheria.
14
14
1
Puerperal Pyrexia
3
1
1
Paratyphoid Fever
1
1
–
Pneumonia
9
4
15
(all foms)
Erysipelas.
3
–
–
Cerebro-spinal fever.
2
2
1
Measles
237
8
1
Vhooping Cough
102
2
3
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
1
1
—
Acut.e Poliomyelitis
2
1
"—
Prevention of Blindness
No action was taken under Section 176, Public Health Act, 1936.
Tuberculosis.
No action was necessary under the Public Health (Prevention of
Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925 or Section 172, Public Health Act,
1936.
Total cases admitted
Total Primary Cases to Sanatoria and Total
notified Hospitals Deaths.
Pulmonary.. (Males ) 10 12 6
11 (Females) 11 11 6
Totals 21 23 12
Non-Pulmonary (Males) - 1
11 (Females) 1 2 1
Totals l 2 2
Five deaths from tuberculosis were of cases not notified,
four of whom died in hospitals outside the district.
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