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A minor epidemic of Scarlet Fever in one of our schools is
referred to in my Report to the Education Committee, quod vide.
DIPHTHERIA.
201 cases were notified, with 27 deaths, a case mortality of
13.4 per cent.
In 1908 the notifications amounted to 219, with 18 deaths,
and in 1907 the notifications reached 333, with 49 deaths, a case
mortality of 8.2 and 14.7 per cent. respectively.
In 1909 our death-rate from this disease was .22 per 1,000 of
the population, that of England and Wales being .14, and of the
76 Great Towns .15.
MEASLES.
Measles was the cause of 29 deaths during the year, representing
a death-rate of .24 per 1,000 of the population.
The corresponding rate for England and Wales was .35, and
for the 76 Great Towns .48.
For the past two years I have obtained from the head teacher
of each school a weekly list of all children absent on account of
illness. Only the fresh cases, however, are entered in these lists,
those of previous weeks not being repeated.
The following table shows the record so obtained in the Infants'
Departments in respect of Measles.