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INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Table IV.
I have to report a diminution in the amount of Infectious Disease in the
Port during 1907, though the total is above the average.
The decrease is noticeable with regard to every description of Infectious
Disease, except Cholera and Chicken-pox.
There have been more cases of Cholera reported on vessels arriving from
the East, but the cases only numbered nine, and seven of these were on
one vessel.
Twenty-seven cases of Small-pox were reported, as against 31 in the
previous year, the average for the ten years being 25.0.
Scarlet Fever numbered 44, as against 82 in 1906. Most of these cases
occurred on training ships.
There were 55 cases of Enteric Fever reported. This number is much
below the average.
Of Measles, 51 cases were notified, as against 68 last year.
The total number of cases reported being 252, while in the preceding year
the total was 336.
The average for the past ten years is shown to be 221.2.
Of the total number of cases reported, 75 were removed to and treated in
the Port Sanitary Hospital at Denton, this number including three or four
suspected cases of Plague, and a case which, on admission, showed symptoms
very suspiciously like those of Cholera.
I have given a few details of this case under the heading of Cholera.
Other cases of infectious disease which present any points of general interest
have been similarly treated under their respective headings.