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Infectious Diseases.
Diseases compulsorily notifiable in this district are .—
Small-pox.
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina.
Diphtheria or Membranous Croup.
Enteric Fever or Typhoid Fever.
Continued or Relapsing Fever.
Puerperal Fever.
Measles and Rubella.
Acute Polio-Myelitis (infantile paralysis).
Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis (Spotted Fever).
Erysipelas.
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica.
Acute Polio-Encephalitis.
Post Influenzal Pneumonia.
Epidemic Summer or Infective Diarrhoea.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Other Tuberculosis (non-pulmonary).
Plague.
Malaria.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Cholera.
Dysentery.
Pneumonia.
Trench Fever.
Cases Notified During 1918.
*Scarlet Fever—32 cases. Barnes 13; Mortlake 19. Of these
25 were admitted to Hospital, and there was one "return case."
The proportion of females to males was as 4 is to 1.
Diphtheria—29 cases. Barnes 14; Mortlake 15. Of these
28 were admitted to hospital. Three died, one shortly after
admission. Six cases was admitted from one school. The proportion
of males to females was equal.
Erysipelas—2 cases. Barnes 1; Mortlake 1.
*One case of Septic Tonsillitis admitted as Scarlet Fever, died in hospital.