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NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The total cases of infectious diseases notified numbered 557.
This is equivalent to an attack-rate of 6.2 per 1,000 of the population.
The following shows the number of cases of each disease notified:—
Scarlet Fever 385
Enteric Fever 20
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup 97
Puerperal Fever 2
Erysipelas 52
Continued Fever 1
The number of fatal cases was 22, equal to 3.9 per cent, of the
cases notified. The deaths were distributed as follows:—
DISEASE.
WARDS.
No. 1
(Town).
No. 2
(Belsize).
No. 3
(Adelaide).
No. 4
(Central.)
No. 5
(West End).
No. 6
(Kilburn).
No. 7
(Priory).
TOTALS.
Scarlet Fever 2 1 1 1 5
Enteric Fever 1 1 1 3
Diphtheria and Membranous
Croup 2 3 3 1 1 10
Puerperal Fever 1 1
Erysipelas 1 2 3
Totals 6 4 5 5 2 22
The death rate from the notifiable infectious diseases was,
therefore, 0.25 per 1,000 of the population.
The following table shows the attack and death rates from
Smallpox, Diphtheria and Membranous Croup, Erysipelas, Scarlet
Fever and Enteric Fever, for the period 1891-1906:—