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The requirements as to Notification of Tuberculosis appear
to be fully observed by the medical practitioners in the district.
The number of Notifications received on Form "C" was 36,
and on Form " D " 22.
During the year there were 26 deaths from tubercular di-eases,
24 of these being from Phthisis, as against 24 and 20 respectively
in the previous year.
Encephalitis Lethargica.—One case from South
Southgate was notified and was visited.
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.—No cases were notified.
Acute Poliomyelitis.—No eases were notified.
Pneumonia.—Thirty-three cases were notified—12 from
North Southgate, and 21 from South Southgate; 16 cases proved
fatal.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—One case was notified, from
South Southgate.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Notification of Births Acts.—During the year 624 notifications
of births were received (of which 18 were stillbirths),
as against 453 in the previous year.
There were 664 births registered in the district, of
which 48 were un-notified, giving a percentage of 92.7 of
notified births.
The apparent discrepancy in the figures of the births
notified and of those registered is due to the fact that some
of the births occurring and notified at the end of the year
were not registered until the beginning of this year.
A Health Visitor was appointed in July, 1916, and,
ever since, her work has been and is continually increasing,
especially since the establishment of the Infant Welfare