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The consumption of shell fish at a date from the
onset of illness coinciding with the incubative period
of the disease was noted in a considerable number
of cases notified. The cases nursed at home were
followed by the occurence of secondary cases in a
considerable proportion of the whole.
MEASLES & WHOOPING COUGH.
These diseases are now responsible each of them
for many more deaths each year than any of the other
notifiable diseases.
During the year there were recorded no fewer
than 66 deaths from Measles and 25 from Whooping
Cough compared with 50 from Diphtheria.
The 66 deaths from Measles represent not only
directly a greater number of cases, but relatively also,
since the fatality rate from Measles is lower than that
from Diphtheria. These 66 deaths represent a volume
of sickness many times greater than that represented
by the 50 deaths from Diphtheria, yet the district
passed through this visitation of Measles without any
anxiety being manifested, while the slightly increased
incidence of Diphtheria caused an outcry. This