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Date.
(Half-year
ending)
(1)
Number receiving relief.
Indoor and outdoor,
but excluding
Lunatics and figures
in column 2.
(2)
Persons in receipt of
outdoor medical relief
only not included
in column 1.
1st Jan., 1914 1,920 90
1st July, 1914 1,804 88
1st Jan., 1915 1,915 64
1st July, 1915 1,553 66
1st Jan., 1916 1,572 86
1st July, 1916 1,511 77
1st Jan., 1917 1,554 69
1st July, 1917 1,546 65
1st Jan., 1918 1,527 64
1st July, 1918 1,439 73
1st Jan., 1919 1,341 46
1st July, 1919 1,376 43
1st Jan., 1920 1,430 46
1st July, 1920 1,426 44
1st Jan., 1921 2,465 75
1st July, 1921 2,486 70
1st Jan., 1922 4,074 58
1st July, 1922 3,520 56
1st Jan., 1923 3,120 64
1st July, 1923 2,659 92
1st Jan., 1924 2,793 70
1st July, 1924 2,328 63
1st Jan., 1925 2,366 51
Infectious Diseases.
The total number of cases of infectious diseases
notified during the year was 3,258, compared with 3,608
for the year 1923 and 4,388 for the year 1922. Towards
this total of 3,258 measles contributed 1,692. It will
be seen that there is a drop of 350 in the total numbers
as compared with the previous year.
There is a fall in the case of every disease except
erysipelas, which increased from 76 to 92 cases; enteric
fever, which increased from 3 to 7 cases; poliomyelitis
(infantile paralysis), which increased from 5 to 7 cases;
ophthalmia neonatorum, which increased from 22 to