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Vaccination. The following table of vaccination returns for the
year 1907 has been kindly supplied by Mr. Lowman, the Vaccination Officer.
The returns for 1908 will not be available for some months.

*Some of the cases removed are known to have been vaccinated, but as the
certificates were not received, they could not be included in the return. It should be
noted that omitting to forward the certificate is as much an offence against the
Vaccination Acts as neglecting to have the child vaccinated.
Scarlet Fevep. 308 cases were notified, giving an attack rate of 5.11
per thousand. 231, 383 and 259 cases were notified in 1907-6-5. The patients
were distributed amongst 247 houses and 112 streets. One case occurred in
205 houses; two cases occurred in 26 houses; three cases in 13 houses; four
cases in 3 houses. The removals to hospital numbered 275, an isolation
percentage of 89.28. There were 12 deaths, giving a fatality of 3.89 per
cent. of cases notified, and a death-rate of 0.19 per thousand of the
population.
Secondary Cases numbered 61 out of 308. These are often due to the
parents not dealing with the first case in their family on wise and intelligent
lines. It is unreasonable to expect any mother to say definitely whether a
given case is one of Scarlet Fever or not, but it is not an unreasonable requirement—indeed,
it is one of her first duties as a mother—that she should be
able to recognise the common warning signs of the ordinary infectious diseases
and take them as a signal for separating the affected child from other members
of the family, and keeping the other children from school until a medical
man diagnoses the real nature of the illness.
Return Cases.—See section on "Hospitals."
INSPECTION OF SCARLET FEVER
CONVALESCENTS.
On March 10th the Council adopted the Sanitary Committee's recommendation
that these people should be asked to come to the Town Hall on
their way home from hospital, and be there examined by the Medical Officer