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Erysipelas. Four hundred and thirty-nine cases of erysipelas
were notified in 1893. This is a large increase in numbers and
the mortality was twenty-seven, chiefly in the Union Infirmary,
to which all such cases drift in case of poverty, other institutions
not admitting this disease.
Zymotic The table (XII.) of fatal diseases of the infectious
Diseases.
class given herewith shews that five hundred and
sixty-four deaths arose therefrom. But one hundred and twentyone
deaths arose from the principal notifiable diseases, scarlet
fever, diphtheria and enteric fever, out of a total of two thousand,
seven hundred and ninety-eight cases of those diseases notified
during the year.
Of the non-notifiable infectious diseases, in Table XII.,
measles, whooping cough, diarrhoea and “other infectious
diseases,” which latter include forty-nine fatal cases of influenza,
a total mortality of four hundred and forty-three occurred during
1893. It is to the great fatality of these unnotified infectious
diseases that the zymotic death-rate of 3.5 per thousand is
principally due.