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41 eases were notified by school teachers, compared with
598, 361, and 377, in the three previous years. 18 were
under five years of age, 22 between five and ten, and one over
ten.
Owing to the prevalence of Whooping-cough a short
series of precautions was drawn up by your instructions and
printed on cards. These are left at houses where cases are
notified by school teachers. The precautions were printed
in the Annual Report for 1910.
It is satisfactory to notice a further great reduction in
the mortality of this disease in the past two years during
which this practice has been in force.
The fatality of the disease in the last three years was
5.4 per cent. of notified cases, more than twice as great
as that of Scarlet Fever. The majority of cases, however,
are probably never notified.
Scarlet-fever.
35. There were 496 cases of Scarlet Fever notified
(deducting 22 cases of mistaken diagnosis), equivalent to a