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This total is greatly in excess of previous years, but abnormal
conditions prevailed; enemy aerial activity caused damage to
foodstuffs, and there was deterioration of food in many eases
through unsatisfactory storage centres for distribution in emergency.
That the arrangements for feeding the population throughout
the country worked extremely well, few would deny, and
in the worst blitzed areas the lack of a meal for anyone within
a few hours was a rare occurrence.
SECTION F.
Prevalence of and Control Over Infectious Disease and
Other Diseases.
Fortunately there was no excessive causes of sickness or
invalidity in the Borough during 1944, and the cases of infectious
disease notified involve no special comment.
A new form of quarterly return to the Registrar General
came into operation in 1944, which provides for the correction
of erroneous notifications and subdivides corrected notifications
into sex and age groups. The following is a tabulation, based
on the new form of return, of infectious disease notifications for
1944, on opposite page.