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SCARLET FEVER.
During 1903, in the Borough of Lambeth, 7-44 cases of Scarlet
Fever were notified, and 23 deaths registered, giving a casemortality
of 3"1 per cent.—S 6 for the Inner, and 1*8 for the
Outer Districts. In 1902, there were 1330 cases notified and 48
deaths registered, i.e., a case-mortality of 3*6 per cent.—4 5 for
the Inner, and 3'2 for the Outer Districts. The annual averages
for 10 years (1891-1900) in the Old Parish of Lambeth are (1)
notified cases 1331'3, and (2) deaths, 53*6.
Of the 744 persons notified in the Borough of Lambeth during
1903, 569 (i.e., 76'5 per cent.) were removed to Hospital, and of
these, 19 died (i.e., 3*3 per cent.), whereas 175 (i.e., 23'5 per
cent.) were treated at home, and of these, 4 died (i.e., 2'3 per
cent.). This difference in case-mortality as between Hospitaland
home-treated patients is to be explained by the greater
severity (as a rule) of the cases sent to Hospital.
The attack-rate and death-rate of Scaret Fever per 1000 of the
population have been steadily decreasing during the last few
years in Larnbeth Parish, and are below the average during 1903
in the Borough—a satisfactory condition of things, which seems
to point to the value of isolation (following notification) as the
chief preventive measure in this disease.
The age and sex incidence and mortality for the 744 Scarlet
Fever cases notified in Lambeth Borough during 1903 are as
follow :—