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Malaria. The Regulations provide that it is the duty of
the Medical Officer of Health to take all practical steps to
ensure that persons suffering from Malaria are supplied with
sufficient mosquito netting ; receive the necessary quinine
treatment; receive proper advice as to the continuation of
quinine treatment in order to prevent relapses, and receive
proper advice as to the precautions to be taken to prevent
the spread of infection.
Four cases of malaria were notified but in only one of them
was it necessary to take the action contemplated under the
Regulations of 1918. On becoming acquainted with the facts
of this case, I sent the patient to the Seamen's Hospital
to receive the necessary treatment and advice in order
to prevent a relapse and the spread of infection. He was
admitted as an in-patient there. A subsequent examination
of his blood failed to show the presence of the malaria parasite.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Eighteen cases of ophthalmia neonatorum were notified
during the year and eight cases were treated in hospital.
In tabular form is shewn below, as required by the Ministry
of Health, the result of each case :—