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Dysentery. In the notification of Infectious Diseases' Act, which
became Law in the autumn, Measles has not been included in the
list of diseases required to be notified. It is of course competent
for a District to add any disease to those enumerated, but it seems
preferable that uniformity should be adopted throughout the
Metropolitan area, rather than that our District should differ from
its neighbours in such details. Scarlet-Fever proved fatal in only
two instances, in one of which the death took place in an Asylums'
Board Hospital. Whooping Cough was the registered cause of
death in 12 cases, and Diphtheria was responsible for 33 deaths,
about half taking place in various hospitals. 9 persons died from
Enteric Fever, and a similar number from other zymotic diseases
not here particularised. Typhus Fever is again absent as a cause
of death.

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