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Council has made arrangements with certain local nursing organisations,
viz., the Ranyard Nursing Association and the St. John the Divine
Nurses, for a nurse to visit and carry out the treatment prescribed.
Erysipelas.
52 cases were notified during the year, and there were 2 deaths.
Enquiries are made particularly in connection with the possibility
of any prospective confinement in the house.
Other Notifiable Disease.
With the exception of Tuberculosis, which occupies a separate
section of this Report, no notifiable disease, other than the foregoing,
occurred during 1929, with the exception of Measles, which ceased to
be notifiable on the 31st March, and is therefore dealt with in the
succeeding portion of the Report.
II. NON-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
In the absence of formal notification, the reports from the head
teachers of schools and a perusal of the death returns give some idea
of the prevalence of these diseases. Their importance, however,
cannot be stated and judged by the death-rate, for they are peculiarly
liable to be the precursors of much chronic disability and ill-health,
the extent of which it is not possible to assess. This particularly
applies to the following :—

During the early part of 1929, there was a fairly heavy incidence
of Influenza, the death-rate for the first quarter rising to 2'1 per 1,000
population, a fact which had a considerable bearing on the increased
annual death-rate from all causes.