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ACCORDING to the report of the Department of Local Government of Eire for 1939-40, 1939, as in all parts of the world from which statistics are available, was a record year in Eire owing to the low prevalence and fatality of acute infectious diseases. There were only 2,779 notifications of scarlet fever with 43 deaths in 1939, both figures being much the lowest on record. There were 2,097 cases of diphtheria with 245 deaths which accounted for nearly two thirds of all deaths from endemic infections. The fatality rate of diphtheria, as in all parts of the world, unlike that of measles;whooping-cough, and scarlet fever, showed no tendency to fall. There was an apparent increase in the mortality from tuberculosis, but this was probably accounted for by an improvement in notification.
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Health of Eire. Nature 149, 136 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149136b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149136b0