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Small Pox
No case of small pox was notified during the year 1952.
The last case was in 1932.
Scarlet Fever
The number of cases of scarlet fever notified during the year
was 225 as compared with 111 in 1951, equivalent to a case rate
of 3.36 per 1,000 population. This disease has continued mild
in character; no death due to this cause was recorded. Of the
total number of cases notified 78 were treated in hospital and
147 were treated at home.
Diphtheria
No case of diphtheria was notified for the third year in
succession and only two in the past six years, whereas before that
cases averaged sixty per year.
Immunisation and reinforcing doses were available to every
school child whose parents gave consent.
Diphtheria Immunisation
There are three clinics within relatively easy reach of everyone,
as well as immunisation sessions held in the schools.
Efforts have continued during the year to obtain the immunisation
of every child before the first birthday. The health visitors
urge mothers at the welfare centres, and at home visits, to have
their children immunised, making special visits in difficult cases.
A birthday greeting letter is sent at the approach of the first
birthday, making an appointment for immunisation for those
infants not yet immunised.
The following figures show the number of children immunised
and reinforced during the year (the figure for immunisation
includes those who received combined injections against diphtheria
and whooping cough):—