View report page

33
SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
During 1914 there were 1,711 cases of acute infectious disease,
compulsorily notified in the Borough; of these 55 were found
subsequently not to be suffering from notifiable infectious disease,
thus reducing the number of genuine cases to 1,656. This total
shows an increase of 611 upon those notified during 1913. The
attack rate in respect of the acute notifiable infectious diseases
for the year 1914 is 7.4 per 1,000 persons living.
In addition I received 550 notifications of pulmonary tuberculosis
and 148 notifications of other forms of tuberculosis.
The deaths from the chief zymotic diseases numbered 341.
This is equivalent to a zymotic death rate of 1*5 per 1,000 living in
the Borough.
A.—NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES (ACUTE).
Small-pox.—No case of small-pox was notified in the Borough
during 1914.
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina.—The number of cases of scarlet
fever notified during 1914 was 816, but of these 26 were found
afterwards not to be suffering from this disease, thus reducing
the genuine cases to 790. This is an increase of 13 cases upon the
number of genuine cases notified during 1913. On reference to
the chart given with this report, it will be noted that the inciden
of the disease was high at the beginning of the year, but fell rapidly
during January and continued low during the months of February
to August. There was another rise in the month of September,
which was maintained during October and November. During
December the incidence fell almost to the normal.
c