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League of Nations, and all closely concerned with the
public welfare, the propaganda of the "Anti Societies"
appears to be more readily accepted. The fact that 13 per
cent. of cases of Diphtheria notified died should be
sufficient for the public to encourage any approved action
to lessen the severity and incidence of this disease.
Other Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
Tables IX. and IXa. give the necessary information
with reference to such notifiable diseases as Pneumonia,
Erysipelas, Acute Poliomyelitis, and Typhoid Fever, none
of which appeared in epidemic form in 1936.
Tuberculosis.
Tables IX. and X. give incidence and particulars of
cases of Tuberculosis in Bromley in 1936.
The current register contains a total of 410 names of
patients who have been notified as suffering from
tuberculosis.

The total of 410 cases gives a rate of 7.2 per 1,000
population which compares unfavourably with the
previous year's rate of 6.8, but too much importance
should not be attached to this rather high rate of incidence
in that quite a good proportion of cases on the register
are quiescent and might well be written off as recovered,
especially in the cases of those falling under the heading
of "Other Forms," which contains glands cases rectified
by surgical treatment.
Eighty-five new cases were notified or otherwise
revealed to me during 1936, of which 70 were pulmonary
and 15 non-pulmonary cases, and included in these figures
are 17 cases who removed into the area but had been
notified elsewhere. There were 36 deaths from tuberculosis