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Nine (9) Deaths occurred from Measles, five (5) from Whooping
Cough, eight (8) from Diphtheria and Membranous Croup, and five (5) from
Diarrhœal Diseases.
The Zymotic Death-rate throughout England and Wales in 1907 was
1.28 per thousand—almost the same as your Zymotic rate—but in the Rural
Districts of the country the average rate was only 0.91 per thousand—
decidedly less than your Zymotic Death-rate.
Eighty-seven (87) cases of Infectious Diseases were notified to me,
viz, Diphtheria and Membranous Croup fifty-two (52), Scarlet Fever nineteen
(19), Erysipelas eleven (11), and Typhoid Fever five (5).
Table III. (Local Government Board Tables) gives the number of
each Infectious Disease in the various Sub-Districts, and the number of
cases of such disease removed from each Sub-District to the Isolation
Hospital.
I give in Table G the number of eases of each Infectious Disease
notified to me in 1907, and in each of the ten preceding years, and also
the average number of each Infectious Disease notified to me in that decade
(1897—1906).

The chief features to notice in Table G are the marked diminution
in the number of Infectious Cases reported to me (the lowest on record
since the adoption of the Infectious Diseases Notification Act, except during
the second year, 1892), and the decided decrease in every one of the
Infectious Diseases, with the exception of Diphtheria which, on the other
hand, has as markedly increased in the number of cases reported.
In the next Table, Table H, I give the number of each Infectious
Disease reported from each township, and compare the total number of
Infectious Diseases notified from each township in 1907 with similar totals
for 1906.