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ERYSIPELAS.
32 cases of erysipelas were notified during the year, the sexes
being equally affected.
The face was affected in about two-thirds of the cases, the
legs and the head being the other most common sites.
One case proved fatal.
One-half of the cases were treated at home. Most of the
remaining patients were admitted to isolation hospitals.
SMALLPOX.
No cases of smallpox were notified. Visits were paid to the
homes of those who while on board ship were contacts of this
infection.
746 primary vaccinations were performed by public vaccinators
in this district, 690 to infants under one and 56 over one year of
age. In addition there were 33 successful re-vaccinations.
EPIDEMIC DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS
SYSTEM.
Cerebro-spinal fever.
Seven notifications of cerebro-spinal fever were received,
these being in respect of two males of 6 and 28 years of age in
January, a girl of 5 in March (all these cases proving fatal), males
of 25 and 34 in June, and males of 2 years and of 7 months in
December.
In June a child of 2 months who had not been notified died in
a general hospital in London from post-basic meningitis.
Three of the notified cases were removed to isolation hospitals,
two to county hospitals, and two to voluntary general hospitals.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
Encephalitis lethargica appeared on the death certificate of
a woman of 36. In May a girl of 6 was notified as suffering from
this disease and was removed to a general hospital where she
apparently made a complete recovery.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis.
Six cases of acute anterior poliomyelitis were notified, but
the diagnosis in two was not confirmed. The first was a girl of
7 notified in May. In August a boy of 11 was diagnosed as suffering
from poliomyelitis which had apparently been contracted in
another district in July. In June a woman of 21 and in July a
girl of 6 were notified.
Three of the patients were admitted to general hospitals, and
one to an orthopaedic hospital.