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POST INFECTIVE ENCEPHALITIS
One male aged five years was notified following whooping
cough.
BACILLARY DYSENTERY (SONNE)
A total of 84 cases of bacillary dysentery were notified, as
compared with 9 in the previous year. Seventeen were over school
age, 34 of school age and 33 under school age.
Of the cases at school, there were five in one department, three
in each of three departments, two in each of four departments and
one in each of twelve departments, i.e., a total of twenty
ments.
In view of the infectivity of bacillary dysentery, the very
limited spread is a matter for congratulation.
Of the thirty-three under school age, twenty-seven occurred at
Higham Hill Day Nursery, where the usual routine measures were
taken on suspicion of the first case and where the chemo-therapy
found successful in previous years was reintroduced.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM
One case was notified and vision was unimpaired.
SMALLPOX
No notification was received. Six suspect cases were seen—
one as a contact from a ship from which a member of the crew
had died of smallpox at an African port. The other five were
consultations in regard to severe or doubtful cases of chickenpox.
ENTERIC FEVER
(a) Typhoid Fever. One male, aged 42 years, was removed to
hospital for observation, but diagnosis was not confirmed.
(b) Para-typhoid. One female, aged 11 years, was admitted to
hospital and confirmed as paratyphoid 'B' type B.A.O.R.
Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations, 1927
Part-compensation continued to be paid in conjunction with
an adjoining authority to a chronic carrier, in order to prevent her
from following her occupation as a cook. The carrier is now 73
years old and for some years was employed by the other authority
as a convenience attendant. After retirement, she claimed that
she was still physically fit and able to work as a cook. For this
reason, part-time compensation continues to be paid.