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SECTION F — INFECTIOUS ILLNESS.
Notification. The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1952, came into force on 1st May. The regulations
revoked the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930,
but made similar provision for the notification of the disease,
modified to accord with the structure and administration of
the services provided under the National Health Service Acts.
The following diseases are notifiable in the district:—
Acute Encephalitis Leprosy
(Infective) Malaria
Acute Encephalitis Measles
(Post-Infectious) Meningococcal Infection
Acute Poliomyelitis Ophthalmia Neonatorum
(Paralytic) Plague
Acute Poliomyelitis Pneumonia, Primary
(Non-Paralytic) Pneumonia, Influenzal
Cholera Puerperal Pyrexia
Continued Fever Relapsing Fever
Diphtheria (including Scarlet Fever
membranous Croup) Smallpox
Dysentery Trench Fever
Enteric Fever (including Typhus Fever
paratyphoid fevers) Tuberculosis (all forms)
Erysipelas Whooping Cough
Food Poisoning
Smallpox. There were no cases notified during the year,
and, for the first time for several years, we were not required
to undertake surveillance of contacts coming in from abroad.
Scarlet Fever. There were 164 cases of Scarlet Fever
notified during the year, giving a case rate of 2.23 per
thousand population.
The tendency to nurse cases at home rather than remove
them to isolation hospital was more marked than ever this year.
In fact only 68 (41.5%) of the cases were removed to hospital.
The steady decline to hospitalisation throughout the last 20
years is brought out in Table IX on page 26.
As usual school children provided the majority of cases
—124 in all. Three schools in particular accounted for 40 of
these, but it was noted that the three schools which made the
greatest contribution in 1951 had very few cases this year.
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