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ERYSIPELAS.
There were 130 notifications of Erysipelas received during the
year as compared with 161, 154 and 146 for the three preceding years.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
There were 5 notifications of this disease received during the
year, as compared with 9, 7 and 8 for the three preceding years.
4 cases were removed to hospital.
The number of deaths was 1, as compared with 2, 1 and 2 for
the three preceding years. The death-rate was equal to 0.008 per 1,000,
compared with 0.01, 0.008 and 0.01 for the three preceding years.
CEREBRO SPINAL FEVER.
(Epidemic Cerebro spinal Meningitis.)
Notification of Cerebro-spinal Fever was made compulsory in
the Administrative County of London on March 12th, 1907, for a
period of six months. This order was further extended (August 27th)
for a term of eighteen months from September 13th, 1907. Notices
of this order were posted in the Town Hall and other public places in
the borough. The number of cases notified in the County of London
during the year was 132, whilst in the Metropolitan Borough of
Deptford there were two, both of which proved fatal.
DIARRHŒA.
The total number of deaths registered from the above disease was
20, against 146, 84 and 112 for the three preceding years. Of these
20 deaths, 17 were children under five years of age, 14 of these
being under one year of age.