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for occupiers to sprinkle sand or ashes when ice forms on the
approaches to their premises, and on those of elderly or
disabled neighbours.
Publicity during the year was concentrated on the
prevention of injury by fire and by accidental poisoning.
Doctors, chemists and public libraries co-operated well by
allowing posters and leaflets to be displayed on their premises.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
An outbreak, of measles, and a number of cases of a
mild form of infective diarrhoea occurred during the year.
Tuberculosis notifications (18) were the lowest on
record, and it is gratifying to note the reduction in the number
of cases of this disease notified in the District during the
past 10 years, despite the increase of population, viz:-

This satisfactory progress may be attributed to-
1) Early case finding and control of
infectious persons.
2) Supervision of contacts.
3) B.C.G. vaccination.
4) Mass X-ray.
5) Improved living standards.
6) Elimination of tuberculosis from
dairy herds.
If the present policy is faithfully pursued, the
total eradication of tuberculosis from the community within
the next few years is a distinct possibility, provided that
new importations can be prevented by a rigid system of
immigration control.
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