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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 Neonatorum.
Erysipelas. Polioencephalitis. Puerperal Pyrexia.
Scarlatina or Typhus Fever. Malaria.
Scarlet Fever. Typhoid Fever. Acute Primary
Measles. Enteric Fever. Pneumonia.
Whooping Cough. Relapsing or Acute Encephalitis
Tuberculosis. Continued Fever. Lethargica.
Food Poisoning.
Smallpox.
The district was free from variola infection during the year.
Enteric Fever.
One case of paratyphoid B infection in a child of 13 years was
notified. The patient had recently returned from holiday in the West
Country and was probably infected there. He recovered after a month
in hospital.
Dysentery.
Of 11 cases of Sonne dysentery, one was a resident of a neighbouring
district admitted to St. Helier Hospital with the illness and 9 were
patients of Queen Mary's Hospital all notified in one week in April.
The remaining one was a resident of the district and recovered from
a mild attack after treatment at home.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever.
There were no cases of meningo-coccal meningitis among the
resident population. One case in a baby of one year was admitted to
a local hospital with the disease from an adjoining district.
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