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The figures for the year show an increase in the number of cases
of infectious disease notified over those for 1904, an increase which
is due almost entirely to the greater prevalence of scarlet fever.
Notwithstanding a slightly increased facality in this disease, however,
the total deaths attributable to the notifiable diseases as a
whole show a considerable reduction on those for last year.
An increase in the number of enteric fever cases notified was
accompanied by a considerable decrease in the fatality from this
disease, and diphtheria shows a reduction in both cases and
fatality.
We can only judge of the prevalence of the non-notifiable diseases
by the death returns, and here there has been a very considerable
improvement on last year, for, with the single exception of whooping
cough, the deaths from all these diseases are fewer, in some cases
very markedly so, than in 1904.
Vaccination. The following table of vaccination returns for
the year 1904 has been kindly supplied by the Vaccination Officer.
The returns for 1905 will not be available for some months.
VACCINATION RETURN FOR 1904.
Births.
Successful
vaccinations.
Conscientious
certificates.
Deaths
under one
year tin vaccinated.
*Remov'd
and
untraced.
Still unvaccinatcd
but addresses
known.
Postponed
owing to
illness.
Certified
insusceptible.
1895
1282
20
207
*365
7
8
6
* Some of the cases removed are known to have been vaccinated, but as the
certificates were not received they could not be included in the return. It
should be noted that omitting to forward the certificate is as much an offence
against the Vaccination Acts as neglecting to have the child vaccinated.
Scarlet Fever. 259 notifications were received during the
year, giving an attack rate of 5.1 per 1,000 of the population. The
cases were distributed among 164 houses and 77 streets. One case
occurred in no houses, two cases in 30 houses, three cases in 13