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INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
the year 1935 compared fairly favourably with its predecessors
from the point of view of the incidence of notifiable Infectious Disease
(excluding Tuberculosis), although the total number of cases notified
(230, as compared with 190 in 1934, and 142 in 1933) had been exceeded
on only two occasions. On one of these occasions, 1917, the excess was
due to Measles, which ceased to be notifiable in 1920. On the other
occasion, in 1921, when 231 cases occurred, this total was due to a similar
cause to that which pertained in 1935, i.e., a wave of Scarlet Fever
coinciding with one of Diphtheria.
Slight increases were also experienced in 1935 in the number of
cases of Pneumonia and Dysentery notified, compensated for in part
by a diminution in Erysipelas and Typhoid Fever notifications.
Although 1935 was a " peak " year compared with the last ten
years, the incidence of Infectious Disease of 4.7 per 1,000 population
was well below the average for the ten years 1915-24 of 6.7, and only
slightly exceeded the 4.5 of the period 1925-29.
The following Table shows the number of cases notified, together
with the number removed to Hospital, and the total deaths :—

* Includes deaths from all forms of Pneumonia.
Further Tables (I. and II.) will be found in the Appendix showing
the ages at which the infection occurred, the municipal wards in which
the cases were resident, and the monthly incidence of the disease.
SMALT POX.
No cases occurred during the year, and very few contacts with
cases in other areas required to be kept under supervision. The years
1929-32 were the only ones during which this Urban District has
experienced the disease, and then in very small numbers.
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