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"Efficient home isolation in the houses of the
poorer classes is generally impracticable, and without
the means of hospital isolation the compulsory notification
would be useless, and I should not advise its
adoption.
"It is significant to note that many Districts which
included measles in the list of notifiable diseases have
revoked the addition."
In their reply to the Hampton Council your Council
adopted my view.
WHOOPING COUGH.
This disease caused three deaths. They occurred in
the early part of the year and in cases of children under
five years of age. The number of cases of this disease
was not great. Statistics show that this disease is more
fatal than either Scarlet Fever or Diphtheria, and is,
next to Measles, the disease most fatal to infant life. It
is often very difficult to distinguish between a common
cold and the early stage of Whooping Cough. This
accounts for the spread of the disease, which is very
infectious in its early stages when the child is attending
school or mixing with other children.
DIARRHŒA.
Twenty-one deaths were registered, 18 being under
one year of age, two under five, and one above the age
of 65. Nearly all these deaths occurred in August and
September. The infant mortality from this disease is
41 per 1,000 births.
II.—Notifiable.
SCARLET FEVER.
Forty-two cases were notified and, with the exception
of February, they occurred in every month of the