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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.
Notification.
The following diseases are notifiable in the district:—
Smallpox. Dysentery. Cerebro-spinal Fever.
Cholera. Acute Influenzal Acute Poliomyelitis.
Diphtheria. Pneumonia. Ophthalmia
Membranous Croup. Acute Polio-encephalitis. Neonatorum.
Erysipelas. Puerperal Pyrexia.
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever. Typhus Fever. Malaria.
Typhoid Fever. Acute Primary
Measles. Enteric Fever. Pneumonia
Whooping Cough. Relapsing or Continued Fever. Acute Encephalitis
Tuberculosis. Lethargica.
Food Poisoning.
Smallpox
No cases were notified,
Enteric Fever.
For the second consecutive year there was no case of typhoid
or paratyphoid fever.
Dysentery.
Fifteen cases were notified compared with 69 in the year before.
Of the 15, 3 were residents, the remaining 12 being patients in hospital
admitted from other districts. All were Sonne infectious, and
all recovered.
Cerebro=Spinal Fever.
One case of meningo-coccal meningitis occurred in a baby of
four months. It was admitted to Isolation Hospital and recovered.
Acute Poliomyelitis.
Two cases of "infantile paralysis" were notified. One a noncivilian
male of 35 was discharged from isolation hospital to an
E.M.S. Hospital. The other case, a female aged 20, had extensive
paralysis involving respiration, and received hospital treatment for
4½ months. She died from a supervening broncho-pneumonia.
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