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National Assistance Act 1948.
Section 50. Burial or cremation of the dead.
No action was necessary under this
section during 1959.
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
From the table of infectious diseases
set out on page 42, it will be seen that 305 cases
of infectious diseases were notified during the year
as against 193 in 1958. The Infectious Sickness
Rate for the year was therefore 10.64 as compared
with 6.76 during the previous years.
The rise in the number of infectious
diseases during the year was due almost entirely to
the fact that 1959 was a "measles year".
As regards the infectious diseases picture
as a whole, I cannot do better than to quote in full
the report which I made to the meeting of the Public
Health Committee held on 10th. March 1960.

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