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SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
During 1921 there were 3,084 cases of acute infectious disease
compulsorily notified in the Borough, as set out in Table II.; of
these 124 were found subsequently not to be suffering from any
notifiable infectious disease, thus reducing the number of genuine
cases to 2,960. This total shows a decrease of 786 upon those
notified during 1920. The attack-rate in respect of the acute
notifiable infectious diseases for the year is 13.2 per 1,000
inhabitants.
In addition there were 361 notifications received of pulmonary
tuberculosis and 105 notifications of other forms of tuberculosis.
The deaths from the chief zymotic diseases numbered 157.
This is equivalent to a zymotic death-rate of 0.7 per 1,000 living in
the Borough, as compared with a zymotic death-rate of 1.09
during the previous year.
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Small-pox.—There was not any notification of small-pox in
the Borough during 1921.