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It will be seen from the above table that the total
number of deaths from these zymotic diseases last
year was, making no allowance for the increase in
population, below the average number registered in
the last 10 years.
CASES OF ILLNESS REPORTED AS DUE
TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
There were, omitting phthisis, 675 cases reported
as due to notifiable infectious diseases in this Borough
against 683 in the previous year. The number of
cases of phthisis notified was 199. There were also
reported 1,268 cases of infectious diseases that were
not notifiable, against 439 in. the previous year; 140
of these were chicken-pox, 847 measles, and 281
whooping cough.
SMALL-POX.
No case of small-pox was notified in the Borough
last year, against no case in the previous year.
CHICKEN-POX.
One hundred and forty cases of chicken-pox were
reported, against 113 cases in the previous year. The
140 cases reported last year were treated at the homes
of the patients. No death was registered.
MEASLES.
Eight hundred and forty-seven cases were reported
as due to measles, against 161 cases in the previous
year. Eighty-four deaths were registered. As this is
not a notifiable disease it is of no use my giving the
mortality rate on the cases reported, as no doubt
only a proportion of the cases which occurred were