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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
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logical outfits are supplied, and inoculated swabs from suspected
cases are examined bacteriologically by the Public Health Department
for Medical Practitioners free of charge, and diphtheria
antitoxin is supplied to Medical Practitioners on request.
Every case notified is carefully investigated by an Officer of
the Health Department, and the effective preventive measures
outlined in my Annual Report for 1921 (page 23) have been continued
throughout the past year.
The 65 cases of Diphtheria notified came from 62 separate
families; in 59 of these families only one case occurred in each
family. In the other three families there were two cases in each
family; in each of these instances the second case had contracted the
disease before the removal of the first case to Hospital. In no instance
did another occupant of the house become infected after removal of
the patient to Hospital and subsequent disinfection of the premises
had been carried out, and in no instance did a second case occur
subsequent to a patient's return home after discharge from Hospital.