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TYPHOID FEVER AND PARA-TYPHOID FEVER :- No case of Typhoid
Fever was notified. One case of Paratyphoid Fever was notified.
Infection occurred in another district,
DYSENTERY:- Thirteen eases of Sonne Dysentery were notified,
the same number as in the previous year. The disease is endemic.
Only the more severe cases show the signs typical of Dysentery.
Mild cases may escape recognition unless early bacteriological
examinations are made. The disease is spread by these mild
cases of gastro enteritis, and persons who are. engaged in the
handling of food, whether in the home, the shop, the factory, or
in transport, must beware of their infectivity when suffering
from any mild form of diarrhoea, and at all times take adequato
precautions by the most scrupulous cleansing of the hands before
handling food.
CEREBRO-SPINAL FEVER:- Two fatal cases of this disease
were reported. One, a child aged 8 years, who was notified,
succumbed quickly to acute infection. The other, a male adult,
died at home after a short severe illness, and was certified by
post-mortem examination as having died from Cerebro Spinal
Meningitis. The acute forms of this disease are especially
liable to mortality unless treatment by the Sulphonamide drugs
is initiated in the early phase of illness,
ANTERIOR POLIOMYELITIS:- One case was notified of a boy,
aged 16 years, who died in hospital from aoute respiratory
paralysis.
PNEUMONIA :- Of twenty-four deaths occurring from all forms
of Pneumonia, no case was notified previous to death. The total
number of notified oases arising in the district was twenty-five,
NON-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES:- School teachers reported ninetytwo
cases of Mumps, thirty-seven cases of Chicken Pox, fifteen
cases of German Measles, and one case of infective jaundice.
School notifications are a useful index of the prevalence of
non-notifiable infectious diseases, and form a basis for
consultation with the School Medical Officer.
SCABIES :- There was a further reduction in the incidonce
of this parasitic infection of the skin. The treatment clinic
adjoining No. 3. St, Nicholas Road, Sutton, operated efficiently
under the care of Nurse James, with the voluntary help of
Mrs, Berry and other former members of First Aid Post No. 1.,
and dealt with two hundred and twenty-nine cases, compared with
two hundred and ninety-four cases in 1944. The number of
attendances at the clinic was seven hundred and eighty, compared
with one thousand in 1944. The treatment is by bathing, and
the application of Benzyl Benzoate emulsion to the skin,
LICE:- The facilities provided at the (above clinic have also
been of great value in the reduction of head lice. Forty-four
cases were treated during the year, compared with seventy-five
in 1944, The number of attendances for treatment was one
hundred and seventy-two, compared with two hundred and forty-seven
in 1944, The treatment of head lice by cleansing and the
application of lethane oil has provod effective, and is now
supplemented by attractive hair cream containing D,D,T., which
by its prolonged activity, even after washing of the hair, helps
to keep children free from infestation,
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