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Bacteriological Examinations.
Number of swabs examined 351
Swabs sent from outside 172
Positive Swabs 12
Scarlet Fever.
Admitted during 1946 158
Died 0
Remaining in hospital on 31-12-46 4
Revision of diagnosis 3
Seborrhoeic eczema 1
Post-auricular abscess 1
Measles 1
Proved Scarlet Fever Cases 155
Complications.
Carditis and Endocarditis 2
Otitis media 6
Urticaria 2
Impetigo 2
Infected Nail 1
Chicken Pox and Whooping Cough 1
Whooping Cough 3
Stye 1
Tinea 1
Bronchitis and Asthma 1
No cases of Scarlet Fever were treated with A.S.S. but all cases
which showed toxaemia were given sulphadiazine. In all cases of
children with enlarged and septic tonsils, tonsillectomy was advised.
Miscellaneous.
Admitted 63
Died 2
Remaining in hospital 31-12-46 1
Miscellaneous Notified Admissions.
Chicken Pox 1
Mumps 2
Whooping Cough 16
(Revised diagnosis pneumonia—5)
Typhoid I
(Revised diagnosis pneumonia—1)