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Full details of the new cases and mortality during the year
are shown in Table VII of the Appendix.
Sixty-eight cases were added to the Register, three cases
were noted after death, and there were fifteen Inward Transfers
to the area.
Thirty-two cases were deleted from the Register on account
of deaths, removals, recoveries, etc., leaving a net figure on the
Register of seven hundred and sixty-four, an increase of fifty-six
over the total for 1949.
The number of new cases notified showed a decrease of
eighteen over the corresponding figure for 1949. There were only
thirty-two deletions from the Register during the year as against
a total of one hundred for the year 1949.
FOOD POISONING.
Two cases of Food Poisoning were notified by medical practitioners
during 1950, both of which were isolated cases. The
agent identified in each instance was Salmonella Typhi Murium.
OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
In addition to the infectious diseases enumerated above,
notifications were received as under:—
Pneumonia 53 Dysentery 3
Erysipelas 8 Meningococcal Infection 3
GENERAL.
A total of 288 visits were made by the Sanitary Inspectors
during the year, in connection with investigation and control of
Infectious Diseases.