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Death rate
Notifications Deaths per 1,000 pop.
1917 340 19 0.17
1918 337 26 0.25
1919 552 58 0.53
1920 580 36 0.31
1921 565 34 0.28
1922 539 34 0.28
1923 489 20 0.17
1924 566 29 0.24
1925 493 19 0.16
1926 646 21 0.17
1927 476 16 0.13
1928 385 9 0.07
1929 342 7 0.06
1930 439 14 0.12
It should be noted that the figures headed
"Notifications" do not accurately represent the number
of cases, as no doubt they include a proportion of cases
mistakenly diagnosed as clinical Diphtheria, undue
reliance being placed upon a positive bacteriological
report as a basis for notification.
Anti - diphtheritic serum is stocked at the Town
Hall and supplied free on the order of a doctor; 36,000
units were supplied during the year.
Scarlet Fever.
There were 527 cases of scarlet fever notified during
the year, 518 of' the patients being removed to an
isolation hospital.
The relative mildness of the disease in recent years
indirectly leads to the spread of the disease, through
many "missed" cases of an ambulatory type living
amongst the general population.
No use has been made in the Borough, so far as I
am aware, either of the Dick test for the purpose of
diagnosis or of serum for immunisation or therapeutic
purposes.
One death was returned by the Registrar-General
as due to scarlet fever during the year, equal to a case
mortality of 0.18 per cent., and a death x-ate of 0.009
per 1,000 population.