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Disinfection.
Rooms fumigated 131
Mattresses disinfected 266
Blankets disinfected 442
Pillows disinfected 272
Miscellaneous articles disinfected 280
Bacteriological Work.
Bacillus found Bacillus
not found
Diphtheria County Laboratory 5 91
Diphtheria Clinical Research Association 11 10
Cerebro-spinal Fever Clinical Research Association - 1
Tuberculosis County Laboratory 8 ?
On the grounds of economy, copies of the reports on specimens sent to the
County Laboratory by private medical practitioners which prove to be negative,
are not forwarded to local Medical Officers of Health.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (other than Tuberculosis)
during the year 1945.
Disease
Total Cases
notified
Cases admitted
to Hospitals
Total
Deaths
Scarlet Fever
14
14
-
Diphtheria
24
24
2
Pneumonia
15
3
14
(all forms)
Erysipelas
3
1
-
Measles
62
1
-
Whooping Cough
40
-
-
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
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 Primary
cases notified
Total Cases
admitted to
Sanatoria and
Hospitals
Total
Deaths
Pulmonary (Males)
10
11
7
,, (Females)
9
11
4
Totals
19
22
11
Non-Pulmonary (Males)
-
-
1
„ (Females)
1
1
2
Totals ...
1
1
3
Five of the 14 deaths from Tuberculosis were of cases not notified, four of
whom died in Hospitals outside the district.