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TYPHOID FEVER:- One case was notified. Investigation
proved that the source of infection was not in this district.
No case of Paratyphoid Fever was notified during the year.
DYSENTERY:- Thirteen cases of Sonne Dysentery were
notified compared with only one case in the previous year.
The disease is endemic, and varies in intensity from mild cases
of gastro enteritis, which may be attributed to other causes,
to severe cases showing typical symptoms and signs of dysentery.
Mild cases are liable to escape identification and notification
unless early bacteriological examinations are made. The
disease is spread by the contamination of food, and persons
engaged in the handling of food whether in the home, the shop,
the factory, or in transport mast recognise a high responsibility
to the public health by the most scrupulous hygiene of the hands,
CEREBROSPINAL FEVER :- One case was notified compared with
four cases in 1915. There was no death.
ACUTE ANTERIOR POLIOMYELITIS:- No case was notified,
PNEUMONIA:- Of thirty seven deaths occurring from all
forms of pneumonia, no cases were notified previous to death.
The total number of notified cases arising in the district
was twenty.
NON-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES:- School teachers reported thirtythree
cases of Mumps, forty-one cases of German Measles, and
one hundred and thirty cases of Chicken Pox. School notifications
are a useful index of the prevalence of non-notifiable diseases
and form a basis for consultation with the school medical officer.
SCABIES:- There was a definite reduction in the incidence
of Scabies. The treatment clinic at the Public Hall, Sutton,
operated efficiently and dealt with two hundred and ninety four
cases, compared with four hundred and fifty three cases in 1943.
The number of attendances at the clinic for treatment and
observation was one thousand, compared with one thousand eight
hundred and sixty three in 1943. The clinic has now been
removed to the Civil Defence Quarters, adjoining No. 3. St. Nicholas
Road, Sutton,
LICE:- The facilities provided at the above clinic have also
proved of great value in the reduction of head lice and of body
lice, the absence of which is the best insurance against the
soread of Typhis Fever, a potential danger under war conditions.
Seventy five cases were treated during the year, compared with
eighty four cases in 1943. The number of attendances for
treatment and observation was two hundred and forty seven,
compared with three hundred and sixty nine in 1943.
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