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Erysipelas.
31 cases were notified during the year.
Enquiries are made particularly in connection with the possibility
of any prospective confinement in the house.
Enteric Fever.
7 cases were notified, but the diagnosis in one case was revised to
Dysentery. There were no deaths.
Other Notifiable Disease.
With the exception of Tuberculosis, which occupies a separate
section of this Report, no notifiable disease, other than the foregoing,
was reported during 1937.
II. NON-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
In the absence of formal notification, the reports from the head
teachers of schools and a perusal of the death returns give some idea
of the prevalence of these diseases. Their importance, however, cannot
be stated and judged by the death-rate, for they are peculiarly liable to
be the precursors of much chronic disability and ill-health, the extent
of which it is not possible to assess. This particularly applies to the
following:—