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SECTION E—INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF
FOOD.
(See Sanitary Inspector's Report, on page 47).
SECTION F—INFECTIOUS ILLNESS.
Notification. The following diseases are notifiable in
the Urban District:—
Cholera.
Cerebro-spinal fever.
Continued fever.
Diphtheria (including membranous
croup).
Dysentery.
Enteric Fever (including
paratyphoid fevers).
Erysipelas.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
Food poisoning.
Malaria.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
plague.
Acute Primary pneumonia.
Acute influenzal pneumonia.
Acute Poliomyelitis.
Acute Polioencephalitis.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Relapsing fever.
Scarlet fever.
Smallpox.
Trench fever.
Typhus fever.
Tuberculosis (all forms).
Smallpox. The district has been free of smallpox infection
for five years. No notifications were received in 1938.
Enteric Fever. No cases of Typhoid or Paratyphoid
Fever were reported. It is 12 years since an incidence of
" Nil " was recorded.
Dysentery. Four cases were notified, none of which was
confirmed bacteriologically. Three were children aged 2, 4
and 7 respectively, who suffered with diarrhoea for a few days
and had practically recovered by the time they came to our
notice. It is difficult to say whether they were due to
dysenteric organisms or not. The fourth, a youth of 17, also
suffered from a mild attack lasting less than a fortnight.
Scarlet Fever. Scarlet Fever was rather more prevalent
than in the year before but was of the same mild type. One
hundred and sixty-one cases were notified giving an incidence
rate of 2.33 per thousand population compared with 2.41 for
the country as a whole. The attack rate was heaviest in the
St. Helier Wards.
There were no deaths recorded from Scarlet Fever.
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