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Return Cases.
There was only the one household in which a return case occurred
this year. The brother aged three of a boy of seven, who was discharged
on the 19th July, sickened on the 15th August.
Schools and Infection.
There was no suggestion this year that infection was contracted at
any of the schools. The only suspicious grouping was that of three cases
occurring in the one week at one school, but in the succeeding weeks no
further cases occurred. In two other instances, three cases occurred over
a period of a fortnight.
SMALLPOX.
The few persons who came to the district from areas in which the
disease was present were kept under surveillance.
MALARIA.
Notifications were received of four cases in whom the malaria contracted
abroad a relapse occurred.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Four notifications were received this year, but in one case the diagnosis
was not confirmed. The other three were all of para. B. infection.
All cases were unrelated. The first fell ill in early August, the other two
in October. One patient was treated at home, the other two being admitted
to isolation hospitals.
DYSENTERY.
The diagnosis in four of the 32 cases notified was withdrawn. Two
patients were suffering from a relapse of amoebic dysentery, contracted
abroad. In 10 the illness was the result of a Sonne infection. The
laboratory findings of the remaining cases are not known. The infections
were irregularly distributed through the year. Apart from the amoebic
cases the onset of 1 was in January, 2 in February, 8 in March, 10 in
April, 2 in May, 1 in July, 2 in September and 1 each of the last three
months of the year.
The only associated cases seemed to be 2 in one family in March, and
3 in one family in April. Fourteen patients were admitted to isolation
hospitals and 4 to other hospitals.
FOOD POISONING.
Only one case of food poisoning was notified during the year—a
boy of two who, in September, was diagnosed as suffering from a salmonella
typhi-murium infection.
ERYSIPELAS.
Thirty-five notifications were received during the year, but in 3 the
diagnosis was amended. Twenty of those suffering were males. The
face was affected in 24, the leg in 5. Fourteen of the patients were
admitted to an isolation hospital for treatment.