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factories and workshops. These comprise food, jam and
chemical works, enginering, hosiery, paint, dye and wood
works and laundries, &c. There are no trades carried on
which are scheduled as offensive trades.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Prevalence of, and control over, Infectious Disease.
Scarlet Fever.
The number of notifications received during the year
was 226 as compared with 180 for the previous year. Infection
was mainly due to contacts. It has not always been
easy to trace a contact from one case to another.
Of these 226 cases 212 were admitted to Hospital and
14 were nursed at Home.
In reference to the case that died, this had previously
had a suspicious throat. It became affected with paralysis
and was a late case on admission.
Diphtheria.
There were 23 cases of diphtheria as compared with
25 for last year. Of these 22 were removed to our own
Isolation Hospital. The remaining case which was nursed
at home died.
There was 1 death from Diphtheria.
Smallpox.
During the year 2 direct (or actual) contacts with cases
of smallpox were notified to this Department. Each one
was visited by me on several occasions and kept under observation.
Nothing further developed.
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