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ZYMOTIC DISEASES.

SMALLPOX.
Three cases of smallpox occurred in the parish during the year.
Two cases were removed to the Hospital, the third case being treated
at home.
MEASLES.
One hundred and seventy-four cases were reported during the year,
but none were known to your Sanitary Authorities until a death occurred,
being another instance of the desirability of Compulsory Notification of
Infectious Diseases.
SCARLET FEVER
A special report has already been made by me and printed on the
epidemic of Scarlet Fever, bearing out again the necessity for the
Compulsory Notification of Infectious Diseases.
Of the 262 cases of Scarlet Fever reported, 165 were removed to
hospital, 12 were not reported until after death, and the others were
treated at their own homes.
DIPHTHERIA.
Seventeen deaths occurred from this disease. In two cases the
infection was contracted in the country, one in Plymouth, and the
other in Hampshire.
The difficulty in dealing with this disease is that there is no
hospital to which cases can be removed to ; nor is there any ambulance
to remove them in to a hospital which will receive such patients.
I should strongly support any motion of your Vestry to obtain from
the Metropolitan Asylums Board the reception of such cases, and the
provision of ambulances.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Only two cases of this disease were reported before death occurred,