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Infective Diseases.
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42 of the cases recovered without any impairment of vision,
and in three the vision was impaired.
Measles.
The number of cases of Measles brought to my notice
during the year was 355. The majority of these cases were
reported by the elementary schools, and at arriving at this
figure 10 cases, which proved after investigation not to be
suffering from Measles, are excluded ; 305 of these cases
occurred in the latter part of the year and formed the commencement
of the biennial epidemic which will be described
next year.
One of the cases died.
876 cases of German Measles were also reported.
Table XVIII. shows the number of cases of Measles and
the deaths from the disease for the last eight years. The
upper portion of the Table, which gives the figures for each
year commencing the 1st October, shows clearly the biennial
increase which occurs in the incidence and mortality. The
figures for each calendar year are also given for purposes of
comparison.
20 cases were removed to hospital, compared with 26
in the non-epidemic year of 1927.