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Erysipelas.
Twelve cases of this disease were notified. Three of these
cases were removed to the Council's Isolation Hospital.
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Influenza.
This disease was prevalent in the district during the early part
of 1937; there were twelve deaths during the year. The death-rate
for the district was 0.29 per 1,000 of the population, the death-rate
for London being 0.38, and for England and Wales 0.45 per 1,000
of the population.
Whooping Cough.
The number of cases reported to me from notifications by Head
Teachers and from other sources was 82. These cases were homevisited
by the Health Visitors who made 121 re-visits in following up
the cases—-203 home-visits in all. No death from this disease occurred
during the year.
Death-rates during the past five years, contrasted with the rates
for London and for England and Wales during the same period, are
given hereunder.

TUBERCULOSIS.
During 1937, 28 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 10 cases of
non-pulmonary tuberculosis were notified, representing an incidencerate
of 0.68 cases per 1,000 of the population for pulmonary tuberculosis,
and 0.92 for all forms of the disease.