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INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Including phthisis (176 cases) there have been 873
notifications of infectious disease received during the year.
Of the cases reported a very considerable number were
removed to hospital for treatment, viz.,
Diphtheria 108 or 90.1 per cent, of the cases notified-
Erysipelas 42 or 33.6 „ „
Scarlet Fever 393 or 96.0 „ „
Enteric Fever 25 or 73-5 „ „
Puerperal Fever 4 or 500 „ „
Cerebro-Spinal Fever or 50.0 „ „
Phthisis 111 or 63.0 ,, „
The notification rate or proportion to population of cases of
infectious disease, including phthisis, notified during the year is
6'8 per thousand.
The persistent heavy incidence of scarlet fever in children of
school-age justifies the demand made by one of the neighbouring
Borough Councils that an exhaustive inquiry should be held into
the etiology of this ever-present disease. With the exception of
the St. John's District, which is usually a favoured one in these
matters, the disease has not been more life in one part of the
Borough than another. The other infectious diseases have shown
no particular rise or fall during 1908.