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withstanding the fact that early in the year copies of the
new regulations as to notification were posted throughout
the Borough.
CHICKEN-POX.
The Order requiring the notification of Chicken-pox
was not renewed, but the head teachers of elementary
schools reported 261 cases of this disease, all of which
were visited and dealt with in the usual manner.
ERYSIPELAS.
I received 188 notifications of cases of Erysipelas,
but as 21 of these were duplicates the actual number of
cases was 167, a decrease of 30 on the previous year.
As in all cases of infection, the homes of the patients were
visited, insanitary conditions remedied under notice, and
disinfection carried out after removal or recovery. There
were seven deaths from Erysipelas, but in addition to
these, and included amongst the unclassified deaths in
Table 111. under the head of " other defined diseases,"
were 28 deaths from various forms of sepsis. Amongst
these were seven deaths from abscess, the result of
middle-ear disease and four the result of abscess in connection
with diseased bone.
APPENDICITIS.
Three deaths were registered as from this cause.
DISEASES AND ACCIDENTS OF PARTURITION.
Sixteen cases of Puerperal Fever were reported; all
except one were treated in hospital, where six of them
died. The deaths of nine other women were stated to