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The estimated number of children under five years of age vaccinated at
the end of 1959, was 1,800.
Enteric Fever
There was again no case of typhoid or paratyphoid fever. The stringent
precautions taken in respect of water supplies and the improved standard
of food hygiene are the chief contributory factors in this continued freedom
from enteric fever.
Dysentery
Infection by Shigella Sonnei which is responsible for a relatively mild
form of dysentery is endemic in this country and there appears to be little
doubt that it is never absent from the community. From time to time it
assumes local epidemic proportions particularly when it gains access to
schools especially the Primary Schools, Nurseries and other aggregations
of children not excluding children's hospital wards. Owing to its relative
mildness, it is frequently found to be masquerading under various disguises
such as diarrhoea, dietic indiscretion, etc., for some time before its true
nature is established, by which time it has already become firmly entrenched
in the local community or group which it has invaded.
Such an outbreak occurred in the district during the spring and early
summer of 1959. It affected two widely separated parts of the district; the
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