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SECTION F—INFECTIOUS ILLNESS.
Notification. The following diseases are notifiable in
the Urban District:—
Cholera. Acute Primary pneumonia.
Cerebro-spinal fever. Acute influenzal pneumonia.
Continued fever. Acute Poliomyelitis.
Diphtheria (including mem- Acute Polioencephalitis.
branous croup). Puerperal Pyrexia.
Dysentery. Relapsing fever.
Enteric Fever (including Scarlet fever.
paratyphoid fevers). Smallpox.
Erysipelas. Trench fever.
Encephalitis Lethargica. Typhus fever.
Food poisoning. Tuberculosis (all forms).
Malaria. Whooping Cough.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. Measles.
Plague.
Smallpox. There were no notifications of Smallpox during
the year. There was, however, an outbreak in another
part of London with direct contacts in the district, one
requiring to be isolated. In addition, there have been frequent
arrivals of Service contacts from abroad requiring to be kept
under observation during their stay in the district.
Enteric Fever. There have been no notifications of this
disease during the year.
Dysentery. There were 27 cases of Dysentery notified
during the year. Five of these cases were traceable to food
poisoning and are not to be regarded as infectious Dysentery.
Eight of the remainder occurred at two addresses in members
of the same families, five at one address and three at another.
It was possible to isolate Bacillus Sonne in four only of these
cases and B. Gaertner in one other. There were no deaths
among these notified cases. There were, however, four deaths
in children under two attributed to Gastro Enteritis, three of
whom were under one month and one five months of age.
There were 4 deaths in children under two caused by diarrhoea.
Scarlet Fever. There were 231 cases of Scarlet Fever
during the year; this is 41 less than the previous year.
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