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ENTERIC FEVER.
No cases were notified.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
There were no notifications of this disease.
SMALL POX.
No cases were notified.
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The diseases which come under this classification
are:—Measles, Whooping Cough, Epidemic
Influenza, Mumps, Epidemic Diarrhoea, and Pulmonary
Tuberculosis. *
* Poor Law cases of this disease are now notified, and six such
notifications were received.
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.
Thirteen deaths were registered against nine
last year, giving a percentage of 7.42 of the deaths
from all causes, and a rate of.71 per 1,000 of the estimated
population. One death was recorded under
this heading of a child seven months old. Pulmonary
Tuberculosis as the cause of death in a child of
seven months is very rare. The certificate did not
state that a post mortem examination had been
made.
Of other tuberculous diseases, five deaths
were recorded against six last year, showing a
percentage of 2.85 of the deaths from all causes, and
a rate of .27 per 1000 of the estimated population.
The total deaths from tuberculous diseases are
therefore three in excess of last year and amount to
over 10 per cent. of the deaths from all causes.
When we consider that tuberculosis is a disease
which at any rate is to some, if not to a considerable
extent, both preventable and curable, we cannot
but deplore such a high death rate, and I would
suggest that some means be considered for the more