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Scarlet Fever.—There were 29 cases of
this disease notified as having occurred during
the year, and the Table of Notifications will show
the favourable relation which that number bears
to those of previous years, but though these cases
are comparatively few, and though the type, in
common with the experience of the greater part
of the country, is now far more beneficent than
in former years, yet it is somewhat discouraging
to notice the way in which these cases are distributed
throughout the year, and that with one
solitary exception, the month of August, notifications
were made regularly every month. There
was no outbreak, no tracing of a small parcel of
cases to a "return" case, or to some undiagnosed
child found peeling in school, as has occasionally
happened, and it was but rarely that the source
of infection was satisfactorily ascertained.
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