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SECTION III.-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
NOTIFICATIONS.
The total notifications, excluding duplicates, was 4,430,
compared with 3,611 in 1921. The increase is entirely due
to the outbreak of measles which occurred during the year.
Measles is not compulsorily notifiable but knowledge of cases
of this disease is obtained through the school medical service,
and in the year 2,698 notifications were received, compared
with 481 in 1921. Twenty-one deaths occurred from this
disease. There was a fall in the number of cases of diphtheria
and scarlet fever, viz., 437 and 511 in 1922, compared with
592 and 1,351 in 1921. The number of cases of pneumonia
continues to increase each year. In 1921, 236 cases were
notified and in 1922, 345. This increase is not entirely due
to increased knowledge of notification amongst medical
practitioners, but is a true increase, and is in the main due to
the influenza outbreak at the beginning of the year. It is
pleasing to record that the incidence of tuberculosis, as gauged
by notifications, continues to decrease, the figures since 1918
being as follows:—660, 474, 428, 356 and 305.
The following four tables are published in accordance with
the requirements of the Ministry of Health, laid down in
Circular 359, dated 10th January, 1923, and show the total
number of cases of each infectious disease notified during the
year; the total number of deaths occurring amongst these
cases; and the distribution and case rate per 1,000 population
in the various registration districts of the Borough. Table
No. 24, which follows, shows the incidence of each infectious
disease each year since 1901.