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The following tabulation shows infectious disease attack and
mortality rates per 1,000 population during the war years 19391944.
Scarlet fever has prevailed throughout with a tendency
to increase, but mortality is fortunately, except for 1940, absent.
Diphtheria lessened in incidence, but the insidious mortality
tendencies of this disease does not lessen. The general incidence
in intestinal infections, Enteric and Dysentry, has been sporadic.
Cerebro Spinal fever reared up in 1940-1941, but has, fortunately,
lessened in the successive years. Encephalitis Lethargica, except
for 1942 has been absent in the area, but for 1944 we have the
anomaly of two deaths occurring from this disease, but no notifications
of the disease within the area ; this is accounted for
by the cases being Bromley residents contracting the infection
and dying outside the district. Acute Poliomyelitis (infantile
Paralysis) has shown up sporadically during the period. Whooping
Cough and Measles have given us epidemic visitations, and
single cases of mortality from the former in 1939. 1943 and 1944.
with one death from Measles in 1941 out of 1,563 cases notified
during the six years under review. Ophthalmia Neonatorum
rates, based on 1,000 live births, have been low in incidence, and
all cases during the six years have made good recover;
Puerperal infections, calculated per 1,000 live and stillbirths,
have decreased in incidence since 1939, and with the exception
of the years 1940 and 1941, mortality among patients has
lessened.
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