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PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
The following cases of infectious and contagious diseases were
notified:-
Dysentery 190
Encephalitis (post infectious) 1
Erysipelas 22
Malaria 1
Measles 456
Meningococcal infection 2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 2
Paratyphoid Fever 8
Pneumonia 55
(Acute Primary 44
Acute Influenzal 11)
Poliomyelitis 5
(Paralytic 3
Non-paralytic 2)
Puerperal Pyrexia 53
Scabies 41
Scarlet Fever 130
Tuberculosis 123
Typhoid Fever 1
Whooping Cough 395
The six deaths from notifiable diseases were all due to pneumonia
and occurred in males aged one month, 76 78 and 82 years, and in
females aged 76 and 81 years
DIPHTHERIA. The four suspected cases admitted to hospital were all
finally diagnosed as tonsillitis.
DYSENTERY (Sonne), Cases of this disease to the number of 190 were
notified as compared with 447 in the previous year, and 340 in 1954; 59
cases were associated with an outbreak at a day nursery.
ENCEPHALITIS (post infectious). The one notified case of this disease
was in a boy aged 11 months, who made a satisfactory recovery after a
few weeks' hospital treatment.
MALARIA, The one notification of malaria related to a man who was
suffering from a relapse of the disease originally contracted abroad,
MEASLES. A total of 456 cases were notified, and 27 cases were
admitted to hospital for treatment,
MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTION, The two confirmed cases, males aged twenty
and twenty-one months, made satisfactory recoveries after hospital
treatment,
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM. The two cases notified made complete
recoveries with no impairment of vision.
PARATYPHOID FEVER. On receipt of a notification relating to a child
aged eight years, bacteriological investigation revealed that the
child's father, mother and elder sister were all apparently symptomless
excretors. The mother had, in fact, been treated for paratyphoid fever
in hospital from the 12th September to the 9th December. 1955, and was,
on discharge, regarded as free from infection
Early in May three individual cases were notified, and there was
evidence that they were associated with products from a Bakery in
another area The last case, which appeared to be an isolated one,