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SECTION F — INFECTIOUS ILLNESS.
Notification. The Public Health (Acute Poliomyelitis, Acute
Encephalitis, and Meningococcal Infection) Regulations, 1949,
(S.I. 2259/49) came into force on 1st January, 1950. These
revoked the Regulations of 1912, 1918 and 1919 governing
notification of Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Acute Poliomyelitis, Acute
Polio-Encephatlitis and Acute Encephalitis Lethargica, introduced
nomenclature consistent with the international standard classification
of diseases, and slightly extended the scope of clinical
conditions notifiable under the head of acute encephalitis.
The following diseases are now notifiable in the district:—
Acute Encephalitis (Infective)
Acute Encephalitis
(Post-Infectious)
Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic)
Acute Poliomyelitis
(Non-Paralytic)
Cholera
Continued Fever
Diphtheria (including
membranous Croup)
Dysentery
Enteric Fever (including
paratyphoid fevers)
Erysipelas
Food Poisoning
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcal Infection
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Plague
Pneumonia, Primary
Pneumonia, Influenzal
Puerperal Pyrexia
Relapsing Fever
Scarlet Fever
Smallpox
Trench Fever
Typhus Fever
Tuberculosis (all forms)
Whooping Cough
Smallpox. There were no cases of smallpox in our area
during the year. There were however 5 contacts of this disease,
coming into the country from abroad, who had to be kept under
surveillance until the expiry of the incubation period.
Diphtheria. For the first year on record there were no cases
of Diphtheria. There were two cases admitted to hospital for
observation and diagnosis; both were in young adults. The first
was a young girl of 18, and after repeated negative swabs was
diagnosed as tonsillitis, and the second a young man of 21, which
eventually turned out to be a case of Glandular Fever.
Scarlet Fever. There were 121 cases of Scarlet Fever during
the year, of which 51, or 42%, were nursed at home. Of the
cases kept at home, in no case did a second case arise in the
house. There were 70 cases sent to hospital and there were
three instances of second cases in the same house, one of which
was a return case.
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