View report page

17
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, 59 below the average number registered in
the last 10 years.
CASES OF ILLNESS REPORTED AS DUE
TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
There were, omitting phthisis, 609 cases reported
as due to notifiable infectious diseases in this Borough
against 675 in the previous year. The number of
cases of phthisis notified was 163, against 199 in
the previous year. There were also reported 912 cases
of infectious diseases that were not notifiable, against
1,268 in the previous year ; 228 of these were chickenpox,
484 measles, and 200 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.
Two hundred and twenty-eight cases of chickenpox
were reported, against 140 cases in the previous
year. The 228 cases reported last year were treated at
the homes of the patients. No death was registered.
MEASLES.
Four hundred and eighty-four cases were reported
as due to measles, against 847 cases in the previous
year. Sixty-seven 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