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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The total number of certificates forwarded to me by
Medical Practitioners in accordance with Sec. 55 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, was 814. Two of
these referred to addresses outside Bethnal Green, and
were of course referred to the proper authority; in
another instance a practitioner notified a case in error
and withdrew his certificate; and one certificate was
cancelled at the request of the notifying practitioner,
as the case had been previously reported by a colleague
at the same Institution. 93 certificates (11.4%) were
duplicates, so that the actual number of cases of
infectious disease reported and dealt with was 721, a
rate of 5.5 per thousand on the estimated population.
Table III in the appendix indicates the number of
persons suffering from each disease; it also shews the
sub-district in which such persons resided, and the
number of those removed to the hospital (516).
During the year the London County Council made
an Order extending the notification of Cerebro-spinal
Meningitis for a further period of twelve months as
from and including the 13th of March, 1910.
In 55 instances information was received from one of
the Medical Superintendents of the Metropolitan Board
Hospitals to the effect that the diagnosis, as stated on
the notification certificate, was incorrect, a proportion of
7.6 per cent on the whole.
Table O gives full details of all the notifications.