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1917
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The Infants Clinic and the Ante-natal Clinic at the
Cottage Hospital were opened in February. Difficulties
have been encountered on account of the exceptional
circumstances of the war, and the arrangements are only
temporary.
One of the most satisfactory features of the statistics
is the low incidence of infectious disease.
The notifications of Scarlet Fever received were the
lowest on record for any year since the introduction of •
compulsory notification. Not only the notification rate
was the lowest on record, but the actual number of notifications
was the lowest.
There is also a steady decline in the incidence of
Diphtheria, and the number of deaths from this disease
was lower than that in any year since 1907.
Your obedient servant,
D. J. THOMAS