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it will be seen that more than half of the cases occurred in the
last three months of the year, when 56, 73 and 84 cases respectively
were notified. The outbreak did not continue to extend during
the early months of 1933 and the number of cases per month
remained steady at about 40 in each month.
The disease was very mild in character, consequently many
" missed " cases were found after they had exposed many others
to infection. Only one death occurred from scarlet fever during
the year, this being a man 37 years of age who died nine days
after his admission to the Isolation Hospital. Before developing
scarlet fever he had been in lowered health, having suffered from
asthma and bronchitis as a result of his being " gassed " during
the War. This gives a scarlet fever death-rate of 0.01 per thousand
of population which is the same as that for England and Wales.
The following table shows the number of cases arising in
each of the Wards in the different months of the year:—