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PUERPERAL PYREXIA.
No cases coming within the regulations governing the notification
of this condition in childbirth were recorded during the year.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
No cases of this disease were notified during 1938.
CEREBRO-SPINAL FEVER.
Notifications were received of 2 cases of this disease during the
year. One patient, a girl aged 9 years, died in the Isolation Hospital
after an acute fulminating attack. The child was in a poor state of
health, following a severe illness, when attacked by the disease.
PNEUMONIA.
Nine cases of primary or influenzal pneumonia were notified under
the Public Health Acts during the year.
The greater number of these cases occurred during the colder
months.
ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS.
This disease unfortunately returns in increasing severity during
the early autumn of each year. The number of cases notified (6) is
much greater than has previously been recorded. Fortunately, most of
the cases were mild and there were no deaths.
One little girl who showed an extensive paralysis following the
acute stage of the disease is still under treatment at the Orthopaedic
Hospital at Pyrford, Surrey.
Much time is being spent both in this country and abroad (particularly
in the United States of America and Australia) on the
investigation of the cause and treatment of the disease. While the
bacteriologists seem to be making slow progress with prevention of
the disease and the protection of the individual, we must look to the
orthopaedic surgeons for improvement in methods of treatment and
prevention of crippling defects.
DYSENTERY.
One case of this complaint was notified; the patient recovered.
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