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Section F—Prevalence of and Control
over Infectious and other Diseases.
The district has, within its boundaries, three General Hospitals,
two of which, namely, Queen Mary's Hospital for Children and the
St. Helier County, are particularly large institutions which are part
of the hospital services for London and the County of Surrey respectively.
Many of the cases notified from the St. Helier Hospital are
admitted there from other districts already suffering from a notifiable
disease but not diagnosed until after admission. In order, therefore, to
give a clearer picture of the prevalence of infectious disease in the
resident population of the district, separate figures are given in this
Section which exclude cases of hospital patients who are not residents
of the district. The figures given are after correction for original
errors in diagnosis except in the case of Queen Mary's Hospital
patients.
Notification.
The following diseases are notifiable in the district: —
Smallpox.
Cholera.
Diphtheria.
Membranous Croup.
Erysipelas.
Scarlatina or
Scarlet Fever.
Measles.
Whooping Cough.
Tuberculosis.
Dysentery.
Acute Influenzal
Pneumonia.
Acute Polioencephalitis.
Typhus Fever.
Typhoid Fever.
Enteric Fever.
Relapsing or
Continued Fever.
Cerebro-spinal Fever.
Acute Poliomyelitis.
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Malaria.
Acute Primary
Pneumonia
Acute Encephalitis
Eethargica.
Food Poisoning.
Smallpox.
No cases were notified
Enteric Fever.
No case of true typhoid fever was reported, but two of paratyphoid
were notified. One, a soldier on leave, was suffering when
he arrived home. The other was a member of the nursing staff of
a hospital. Both received hospital treatment and recovered.
Dysentery.
Sixty-nine persons were notified to be suffering from dysentery,
mostly Sonne infections, and of these 57 were hospital patients not
resident in the district. All the cases in which the infecting organism
was isolated were Sonne infections. There were no deaths.
Cerebro-spinal Fever.
Two cases, females of 4 and 36 years, were removed to isolation
hospital where the diagnosis of meningo-coccal meningitis was confirmed
bacteriologically. Both recovered after sulphonamidc treatment.
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