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Erysipelas.
56 cases were notified during the year.
Enquiries are made particularly in connection with the possibility
of any prospective confinement in the house.
Enteric Fever.
Two cases were notified—there were no deaths.
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 1935.
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:—
Influenza.