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INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Admitted
Cases to Isolation
Notified. Hospital,
Rush Green
Admitted
to other
Isol. Hosp.
Admitted
to other
Hospitals.
Deaths
Registered.
Diphtheria
210 203
4
—
12
Scarlet Fever...
423 277
37
—
—
Enteric Fever...
—
—
—
—
Puerperal Fever
4
—
4
9
Puerperal Pyrexia
8
—
3
Pneumonia (Primary)
103
—
7
82
(Influenzal)
22
—
1
Erysipelas
18 1
—
8
—
Encephalitis Lethargica
1
—
1
1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
11
—
—
—
Poliomyelitis ...
1
—
1
—
Smallpox
69
69
—
—
Pemphigus
8 —
4
—
—
Food Poisoning
27
—
—
—
Diphtheria.
The light incidence of diphtheria in the country as a whole
during 1931 was reflected in the small number of local notification
received, there being only 207 compared with 383 in 1930. Per
thousand population this is an incidence rate of 2.28 compared with
1.92 in the previous year, or a rate per thousand under 15 of 5.18.
The rate per thousand population in England and Wales was l.27
or per thousand under 15, 4.88. The incidence of diphtheriain
this district, compared with that of the country as a whole was. for
all ages, 1.79, but for the population under 15 years of age, 10.4
1
2
3
4
5
10
15
20
25
35
45
55
65
l Total.'
Diphtheria
4
5
18
17
20 102
27
5
4
6
2
—
—
210
Scarlet Fever
4
14
27
33
51 196
56
14
8
11
6
3
—
—
423
Puerperal Fever
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
4
—
—
—■
—
4
Puerperal Pyrexia
—
—
—
—
—
—
4
3
1
—
—
8
Pneumonia (Primary)
15
5
7
9
6
15
7
6
2
11
11
5
3
1
103
,, (Influenzal)
—
—
1
1
1
—
1
3
—
5
6
1
—
Erysipelas
2
2
2
—
—
2
3
2
4
—
1
15
Enceph. Lethargica
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1
—
—
—
—
—
—
1
Poliomyel1itis
—
1
—
—
—
—
_
—
—
—
—
—
—
1
Smallpox ...
3
1
3
1
4
9
17
12
8
7
4
—
—
—
—
Typhoid Fever
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
7
of
Food Poisoning
—
—
—
—
1
3
—
2
2
—
6
3
l
27