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The Registrar of Births and Deaths supplies me each
Monday with the names and addresses of all infants
whose births have been registered the previous week so
that the Health Visitor may be sent to those homes
where her advice and assistance are likely to be of service
to the mothers after the doctor or midwife has ceased to
visit the case.
One hundred and forty-six babies were on the list
for this purpose during the year, and received many visits
from the Health Visitor. I am hopeful that her advice
has been of service in helping to bring down the Infantile
Mortality Rate to its present low figure.
ZYMOTIC DEATH-RATE.
There were six deaths from Measles, one from
Whooping Cough, one from Diphtheria, two from Influenza,
and four from Enteritis, yielding an Infectious
Disease death-rate of 1.007 Per 1000 of population.
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
One hundred and nine cases of Notifiable Infectious
Disease were certified during the year.
They were as follows:—
Scarlet Fever 54
Diphtheria 18
Erysipelas 8
Enteric Fever 2
Puerperal Fever 1
Pulmonary Tuberculosis 23
Other forms of Tuberculosis 2
By a recent Order of the Local Government Board
the disease known as Purulent Ophthalmia, or Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, becomes compulsorily notifiable by
doctors and Midwives on April 1st, 1914.
SCARLET FEVER.
Fifty-four cases were notified during the year as
compared with 109 in 1912. Forty-four of these were
treated at their homes by the Fever Nurse on the Milne
System; the remaining ten, not being considered suitable
for this treatment, were removed to Isolation Hospital