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ANTERIOR POLIOMYELITIS.
One case only occurred during the year in an infant
of eighteen months, notified on December 29th.
Some paralysis of the right arm and leg resulted from
the attack.
Subsequently this condition showed signs of improvement,
and the infant was referred to the Orthopaedic
Specialist at the Red Cross Curative Post.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Cases of Tuberculosis notified in the Borough come
under the administrative control of the Surrey County
Council.
Every effort is made to assist the County Medical
Officer and Tuberculosis Officer in their activities in the
area.
No cases have arisen during the year in which any action
became necessary under either the Public Health (Prevention
of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925, or the Public Health
Act, 1925, Section 62.
Disinfection of premises is carried out in all cases of
death, or when patients are admitted to hospital or sanatorium.
NON-NOTIFIABLE ACUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Information with regard to these diseases is furnished
by the School Nurses, Health Visitors, School Attendance
Officers and Teachers.
Except for small outbreaks of Mumps and Whooping
Cough at Richmond Road Infants' and Bonner Hill Road
Infants' Schools respectively, the Schools enjoyed a
remarkable freedom from non-notifiable infectious diseases.
INFLUENZA.
The number of deaths attributed to this disease was 23,
which is higher than of recent years.
The prevalence which commenced in December, 1926,
was continued throughout the early months of the year,
and took its toll chiefly among elderly patients.
The majority of cases were of a mild gastric tvpe,
pneumonia was not a common complication, and there was
no return to the severe type of the pandemic of 1918.