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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.
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
Lethargica.
Food Poisoning.
Smallpox.
The district was again free from Variola infection. Numerous
contacts, chiefly of cases in ships arriving in this Country, were kept
under supervision.
Enteric Fever.
Two cases of typhoid fever were notified.
One, an adult female, contracted the infection at a South Coast
resort, together with two other members of her party, who were not
residents of this district. The other, a boy of 10 years, had a mild
infection. He, with two other boys, drank polluted water in the
vicinity of a sewage farm. All three had symptoms of Gastro-Enteritis
in the early stages and the patient proceeded to develop mild typhoid.
Both cases recovered after hospital treatment.
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