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family. The Council provide treatment facilities at a Public
Cleansing Station where the general practitioners are encouraged to
send their adult patients, in addition to which full treatment
facilities for mothers and children are afforded at the health centres
throughout the district.
Education of the public on the prevention and cure of scabies is
part of the general health education policy of the department
throughout the year. Treatment was accepted in all notified cases,
and the compulsory powers of the Scabies Order, 1940, were not
called into operation.
Infectious Diseases.
There has been a marked diminution in the loss of school
attendance from infectious disease during recent years; and again
this year it can be recorded that there was no serious outbreak of
infection. Information supplied by head teachers weekly to the
Medical Officer of Health of absenteeism due particularly to nonnotifiable
infectious disease, enables cases to be immediately
followed up by the school health visitor in the home.
Notifiable Infectious Disease.
Scarlet Fever 136
Diphtheria 29
Measles 450
Whooping Cough 56
Scabies 183
Typhoid Fever -
Erysipelas -
Pneumonia 6
Cerebro-spinal meningitis 1
Poliomyelitis 1
Tuberculosis:—Pulmonary 5
Non-Pulmonary 7
Total 874