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Smallpox
No case of smallpox was notified during the year 1957. The
last case was in 1932.
Scarlet Fever
The number of cases of scarlet fever notified during the year
was 18 as compared with 56 in 1956, equivalent to a case rate of 0.28
per 1,000 population. This disease has continued mild in character.
Of the total number of cases notified four were treated in hospital and
14 were treated at home.
No cases of diphtheria was notified for the eighth year in succession
and only two in the past eleven years, whereas before that cases
averaged sixty per year.
Immunisation and reinforcing doses were available to every
school child whose parents gave consent.
There are five 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.
The following figures show the number of the child population
considered immunised at 31st December, 1957: —
Diphtheria
Diphtheria Immunisation