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TYPHOID FEVER.
One case was notified, and was home nursed. This was an isolated
case and no secondary cases occurred.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA.
Fifty-one cases, all of which were institutionally treated, were
notified during 1951. This represents an attack rate of 54.8 per 1,000
total births. There was no mortality from this disease.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
No cases were notified during the year 1951.
PEMPHIGUS NEONATORUM.
No cases were notified during the year 1951.
MEASLES.
One thousand three hundred and eighty-one cases were notified
in the Borough during 1951, as against three hundred and sixty-eight
for 1950, giving an attack rate of 21.4 per 1,000 population.
Twelve of these cases were admitted to hospital and the remainder
were home nursed.
The majority of these cases were notified during the first six months
of the year, with February (490) and March (504) being the peak
periods.
The distribution of the cases occurring was fairly even throughout
the area.
Although there was one death from this disease, the type of disease
remains mild in character. The tendency for the disease is to fluctuate
in two-yearly or five-yearly periods, both in severity and in prevalence.
It may become advisable to attach an infectious disease nurse to the
Department, to give home advice on nursing of acute cases kept at
home should the disease show evidence of acuteness.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Four hundred and forty-four cases were notified during 1951,
as against one hundred and thirteen cases for 1950, giving an attack
rate of 6.9 per 1,000 population.
Thirteen of these cases were removed to hospital and the remainder
were home nursed,