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Number of cases treated by private doctors
under the Council's Scheme 78
Number of Schick tests 97
Total number of attendances at Clinic 1,805
CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS.
Six cases of meningococcal meningitis were notified,
none of which had any apparent connection with the others.
One case proved fatal, an infant of seven months.
MEASLES.
Measles reached epidemic prevalence during the first
half of the year, but then rapidly subsided. In all, three
hundred and sixty cases were notified. Most cases were
of a mild type, although eighteen were treated in hospital.
Measles serum derived from commercial sources was asked
for and supplied in 7 cases. There is not yet sufficient
evidence to compare its efficiency with that which used to
be collected locally.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Only twenty-eight cases of whooping cough were notified.
Of these two were treated in hospital. There were
no deaths.
DYSENTERY.
An outbreak of Sonne dysentery occurred in connection
with a children's residential nursery. It afforded a
good example of the importance which should be attached
to apparently minor diarrhæal disturbances in young children
and also of the danger associated with the short term
residence of young children in nurseries. A condition of
sub-acute and chronic diarrhoea with relapses had been
prevalent at the nursery for some months before the
position came to light, and although the originating ease
was doubtful the infection was obviously being kept alive