View report page

16
(c) Puerperal Pyrexia.—Twelve eases were notified, eleven of these
occurred in the district; nine were removed to the Waltham Joint Hospital,
one was nursed at Essex County Hospital, and the other at the Maycroft
Nursing Home, one case was notified from a hospital in the Metropolitan
area. No deaths occurred.
(d) Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers.—No cases of paratyphoid
were notified.
(e) Dysentery.—Two cases were notified. There were no deaths.
(f) Cerebro-Spinal Fever.—One case was notified as occurring
in the district, and was removed to the Waltham Joint Hospital.
Particulars of the incidence of notifiable diseases during 1943 are
contained in an accompanying table.
2. (a) Disinfection and Disinfestation.—The disinfection of bedding
and similar articles is done by the saturated steam process in a cylindrical
horizontal steel " Thresh " disinfector; infected premises are sprayed with
formalin and fumigated by burning formalin tablets.
Number of rooms disinfected 291
Number of verminous rooms disinfested 59
Loads of bedding disinfected 328
Loads of bedding disinfected for Chigwell U.D.C. 4
Number of School classrooms disinfected 26
(c) Tuberculosis.—Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925, and the Public Health Act, 1936, section 172. No
action was necessary with regard to persons suffering from pulmonary
tuberculosis employed in the milk trade.
3. Tuberculosis.—Particulars of new cases of tuberculosis and
mortality from the disease during 1943:—
38 Pulmonary and 14 non-Pulmonary cases were notified for
the first time during the year.
6 cases were transferred into the district.
19 Pulmonary cases and 5 non-Pulmonary cases died during the
year.
7 deaths occurred from non-notified cases of tuberculosis.
5 cases were restored to the register.
31 other cases were removed from the register.
252 cases remained on the register at the close of the year.