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Further particulars as to Scarlet Fever incidence and
mortality during' the last ten years are given in Table XIV.
Scarlet Fever has greatly diminished in fatality during recent
years, and now gives rise to far less mortality than Measles
or Whooping Cough.
Many cases are of so mild a type that medical advice is
not sought by the parents, and the nature of the disease is not
recognised. The mild cases are, however, infectious, and play
an important part in the spread of the disease.
The number of cases removed to hospital was 749 or 87 *7
per cent, of the cases notified. In 1901 Bo*6 per cent., and
in 1900 80 - 1 per cent, of the cases notified were removed to
hospital. In the sub-districts the percentage of cases
removed to total cases was as follows:—East Battersea, 93*5:
North-West Battersea, 93.7; South-West Battersea, 69.6.
The high percentage of removals is an indication of the popular
confidence in the' Metropolitan Asylums Board's hospitals,
for in no case was it found necessary to exercise compulsion
to effect a removal.
The prevalence of the disease varied greatly during the
year, ranging from 39 cases in June to 118 in October. The
greatest prevalence was, as usual, during the last three months
of the year.
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.
The case-rate, death-rate and case-mortality from
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup since 1891 are set out
below: —