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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The Chart shows the number of cases notified during each
week of the year.
The maximum number of cases, viz.:—17, was notified in the
last week of April, and the minimum, viz.:—one, in the third and
fourth weeks of August.
At no period of the year was there any outbreak to call for
special notice, and this is due, as was stated in my Report for last
year, largely to the methods adopted for dealing with cases in
elementary schools.
Diphtheria and School Attendance.
The following Table shows the number of cases of Diphtheria
and their relationship to the schools in the Borough:—