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Smallpox
No case of smallpox was notified during the year 1959. The
last case was in 1932.
Scarlet Fever
The number of cases of scarlet fever notified during the year
was 69 as compared with 75 in 1958, equivalent to a case rate of
1.07 per 1,000 population. This disease has continued mild in
character. Of the total number of cases notified three were treated
in hospital and 66 were treated at home.
Diphtheria
No case of diphtheria was notified for the tenth year in succession
and only two in the past thirteen years, whereas before that
cases averaged sixty per year.
Immunisation and reinforcing doses were available to every
child whose parents gave consent.
Diphtheria Immunisation
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.