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INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATION.
During the year, one thousand seven hundred and sixtyfour
notifications were received; of these, sixty-two were
duplicates, arising from the fact that more than one medical man
was called in to attend some of the cases. The actual
number of cases of infectious disease notified was therefore,
one thousand seven hundred and two, being one hundred
and twenty-three cases less than during the preceding year.
The notifications included six hundred and six of Diphtheria,
two hundred and four of Erysipelas, seven hundred and twentyone
of Scarlet Fever, one hundred and fifty-seven of Enteric,
and fourteen of Puerperal Fever. Table XXII. gives summaries
of the notifications received during each week of the year.
All Notifiable The largest number of notifications received
Diseases. in any week of the year was fifty, this
occurring on two occasions, namely, in the first and sixth
weeks of the year ; whereas, during the thirty-fifth week, being
the first week in September, only fourteen cases were notified,
this being the lowest record of the year. As curiosities of
statistics, might be mentioned the receipt of twenty-one
notifications during each of three successive weeks (the first,
second, and third weeks of April), and similarly forty-six
notifications during each of the first three weeks of October.
Further details will be found in the Table of weekly summaries
of notifications.
Twelve hundred of the cases were removed to hospital,
representing a large proportion of the cases notified, and which,
in view of the excellent treatment received by the patients, and
the satisfactory results of hospital isolation is annually
increasing. The cases removed to hospital included five
hundred and sixty-nine of Scarlet Fever, four hundred and
forty-nine of Diphtheria, one hundred and twenty-four of
Enteric, four of Puerperal Fever, and fifty-four of Erysipelas.