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22
ERYSIPELAS.
Twenty-two cases were notified, as against 16 in the preceding
year. One case was removed to the Isolation Hospital.
In two houses sanitary defects were found.
ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS.
Two cases were notified. One case was removed to the
Isolation Hospital but exhibited no symptoms of this disease
while under observation there, and was apparently a case of
mistaken diagnosis.
TUBERCULOSIS.
During the year there were 35 deaths from Tubercular
diseases, 22 of these being from Phthisis, as against 26 and 19
respectively in the preceding year.
In all cases of Phthisis that have come to my knowledge
leaflets have been left pointing out fully the nature and danger of
the disease, and the means to be taken for the prevention of the
spread of infection to others; and where rooms occupied by consumptive
persons have been evacuated by death or otherwise a
visit has been paid by one of the sanitary officials, and an offer to
disinfect, free of cost, by the Sanitary Authority has been made
and in most cases carried out.
Arrangements have been made by the Hospital Board at Clare
Hall Small-pox Hospital, at South Minims, to receive cases of
Phthisis, three of which were admitted during the year.
Arrangements have been made by the Council to supply
portable shelters in necessary cases, but so far none have been
required.
The number of cases of Phthisis notified under the Public
Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911, was 6.