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School Notifications
The school intimation notices of infectious disease are always
compared with the notifications received from the medical
practitioners. If any case on the school return is found to be
unnotified, investigations are made in order to find out if the patient
is receiving medical attention.
The school notices also give information of the prevalence of
non-notifiable infectious disease, such as chicken pox, mumps, etc.
The numbers were as follows:—
Chicken pox 79
Mumps 205
Ringworm 2
Rubella 2
Impetigo 3
Jaundice 4
Influenza 7
Rheumatic Fever 1
Cancer
The number of deaths from cancer registered during the year
was 108, of which 62 were males and 46 were females.
This is a decrease from last year although the trend for England
and Wales is continuing upwards.
The site distribution for 1954 was as follows:—
Digestive organs 18 cases
Respiratory organs 27 „
Breast 10 „
Genito-urinary organs 1 „
Other sites 52 „
Total 108
The following table shows the number of deaths from cancer,
together with the death rate as compared with England and
Wales:—