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Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Six notifications of this disease were received. In five cases
the child was treated at home, and in the sixth the baby was sent
to a special hospital. In every case complete recovery took place.
Non-Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
The numbers of cases of non-notifiable infectious diseases
reported to me during the year from the elementary schools were
as follows:—
Chickenpox 188
Measles 393
Mumps 39
Whooping Cough 141
Skin Infections 27
788
788
On receipt of these notifications, visits to the homes are made
by the School Nurses to make sure that proper treatment is being
provided and the necessary precautions taken in each case.
Tuberculosis.
Table VII in the Appendix shows that the total number of
new cases coming to the knowledge of the Health Department
during the year was 71, 62 respiratory and 9 non-respiratory.
Of these 59 were notified by doctors practising in the district, or
from hospital, while 12 cases were transferred from other districts.
The number of notifications received in the previous year was
61.
The number of deaths certified as due to tuberculosis was 51, of
which 46 were due to respiratory and 5 to non-respiratory disease.
This is a very considerable increase on the figure for 1935 which was
24. The death-rate was 0.95 per 1,000 of population as compared
with 0.45 in 1935 and 0.65 in 1934. The death-rate from
tuberculosis for the whole country for 1936 was 0.58.