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Small-pox.—No case has been notified since 1902,
and no death has occurred since 1882.
Vaccination.—During the year the proportion of
children born returned as successfully vaccinated was
62 per cent. The last two years the figures were 74
and 70 per cent.
Scarlet Fever.—Twenty-eight cases were notified,
and the rate per 1,000 persons living—1.4—was 1.2
below the mean rate for the previous ten years. No
death was registered.
Fifty-four per cent. of the cases were removed to
the Isolation Hospital.
There were two instances in which "return cases"
arose; the intervals between the day of discharge from
the Isolation Hospital and the onset of the new cases
being respectively 21 and 18 days.
Diphtheria.—Ten cases were notified, and the
rate—0.5—was 0.3 below the mean rate for the
previous ten years. Two cases, both under five years
of age, ended fatally.
Sixty per cent. of the cases were removed to the
Isolation Hospital.
The Council defrays the expense of bacteriological
examinations of swabs (at the Lister Institute), sent to
the Health Offices by medical men.
The Local Government Board, under its Diphtheria
Antitoxin (outside London) Order of 1910, has
sanctioned the provision by Councils of antitoxin for
the poorer inhabitants of their districts.
For this district it was decided that, as the incidence
of Diphtheria was slight, it would not be advisable to
keep a supply of antitoxin at the Health Office, but
rather that the medical practitioners of the district be
informed that the Council would repay them any sums
expended in its provision for their poorer patients.
Enteric, or Typhoid, Fever.—Three cases were
notified. In one of these the infection was certainly
contracted outside the district; in another, owing to
his occupation, this was highly probable ; in the third
there is reason to doubt whether the illness was enteric