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18
Prevalence and Control Over Infectious and
Other Diseases.
The mortality from infectious disease was again comparatively
insignificant, scarlet fever, 0, diphtheria 1, measles 1, and whooping
cough 4. The number of notifications shewed little change over the
previous year, but the degree of morbidity has fortunately been
even lighter than before.
The table summarising the incidence of tuberculosis for the
years 1942-46 indicates that the trend downwards which was
practically continuous between the wars has been resumed now that
some of the war privations and difficulties are less. The notifications
per 1,000 population during these years were 2.14, 2.21, 2.28, 2.24
and 1.16 respectively.