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INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
During 1923 there were 1,169 cases of acute infectious
disease compulsorily notified in the Borough, as set out in Table
II. This total shows a decrease of 410 upon those notified during
1922. The attack-rate in respect of the acute notifiable infectious
diseases for the year is 5.1 per 1,000 inhabitants.
In addition there were 387 notifications received of pulmonary
tuberculosis and 89 notifications of other forms of tuberculosis.
The deaths from the chief zymotic diseases numbered 78.
This is equivalent to a zymotic death-rate of 0'34 per 1,000 living
in the Borough, as compared with a zymotic death-rate of 0 63
during the previous year.
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III. NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEAR.
Small-pox.—There was one notification of small-pox in the
Borough during 1923. All contacts escaped infection. My
report to the Committee was as follows:—
18th September, 1923.
The Committee are aware that a case of Small-pox was
removed on September 14tb from No. 8, Poplar Avenue, one of
the Council's converted Army huts.
The infection, so far as can be ascertained, was incurred at
a laundry, where the patient had been engaged in washing bedclothing
from a hotel in Central London, where a case of Smallpox,
unrecognised at the time, was known to have paid a visit
and to have infected a servant employed at that hotel, who fell
ill with Small-pox on September 2nd.
The information as to this bed-clothing was received on the
10th September, and on the same day the laundry was visited,
notices re vaccination posted, a list of employees and their