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so employed as to give rise to Public Health danger. The girl
herself is an intelligent girl, is co-operative and fully understands
the position.
All the many contacts of the case were followed up and
bacteriological investigations carried out. Four persons came
under suspicion, but further tests proved negative.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA.
Twenty cases of Puerperal Pyrexia, representing an attack
rate of 18.76 per 1,000 total births were notified, with happily
no mortality. Nineteen of these cases were institutionally
treated and one case occurred at home.
OPT1IALMIA NEONATORUM.
There were no cases of this disease notified during 1948.
PEMPHIGUS NEONATORUM.
Eight cases were notified during the year, all of which were
institutionally treated and there was no mortality.
MEASLES.
358 cases of measles occurred in the Borough, as against 533
for 1947, giving an attack rate of 5.65 per 1,000 population.
There was no mortality and the distribution of cases occurring
was fairly even throughout the area.
WHOOPING COUGH.
196 cases were notified (3.09 per 1,000 population). Here
again the cases were fairly evenly distributed throughout the
Borough.
TUBERCULOSIS.