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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 Acute Polio-Encephalitis
membranous 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 in our
district during the year. Service and other contacts arriving
from abroad necessitated a considerable amount of supervision
and in some cases some anxiety, as in many of the households
to which these contacts returned there were one or more
unvaccinated members of the family, often adolescents. We
have been fortunate in Merton and Morden in not having had
an infectious case of Smallpox for some years.
Enteric Fever, There have been no cases of Typhoid
occurring in the district during the year. There was one case
however which was diagnosed as Paratyphoid after serum
tests had been done in the St. Helier County Hospital. On
admission to hospital he was regarded as a case of Dysentery.
No organisms were isolated from the stool and the diagnosis
was made only on the agglutination reactions. No evidence of
any source of infection could be discovered.
Dysentery. There were 8 cases of Dysentery notified
during the year as against 27 in the previous year. There
were no deaths among these cases. Reference to the summary
of vital statistics gives 2 deaths of children under 2
from Diarrhoea compared with four for the previous year.
Scarlet Fever. There were 114 cases of Scarlet Fever
notified during the year as compared with 231 for the year
before. Scarlet Fever continues to be a mild disease and there
were no deaths attributed to this condition during the year.
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