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SECTION VI.—INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
(a) Infectious Diseases Generally.
DISEASES COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE IN THE
BOROUGH.
Acute Poliomyelitis.
Acute Polio-encephalitis.
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica.
Acute Primary Pneumonia.
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
Ceivbro-spinal Fever.
Cnieken Pox.
Plague.
Anthrax.
Glanders.
Hylrophobia.
Cholera.
Continued Fever.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum..
Diphtheria.
Membranous Croup.
Dysentery.
Erysipelas.
Malaria.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia.
Relapsing Fever.
Small-pox.
Typhus Fever.
Tuberculosis.
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.
Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
NOTIFICATIONS DURING THE YEAR.
The total number of notifications, excluding duplicates, was 533
this figure, 97 were notifications of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and
18 of Nn-pulmonary Tuberculosis. In addition, 12 cases of Measles
(including German Measles), came to the knowledge of the Department,
(mainly through the School Authority.
compared with the previous year, there was a decrease of 39 in the
number of notifications of Diphtheria. The number of notifications of
Scarlet Fever (94) represents a decrease of 42, as compared with that
for 1930. The notifications of Tuberculosis show a decrease of 43 as
'Compared with that for 1930.
Table No. 41 shows the total number of cases of infectious disease
notified during the year, the distribution by age-groups, and the number
of cases treated in hospitals