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The 52 "contacts" arrived in England by the following
steamships:-(a) s.s. "Kurgan'' 9, s.s. '"Irkutsk" 3, s.s.
"Wclogda" 1, s.s. "Waliva" 3, s.s. "Novo" 1, s.s.
"Sergee" 1—all from Russia; and (b) s.s. "Batavia" 26,
s.s. ''Batavia II." 3, "Copenhagen" 3. s.s. "Immingham" 1,
s s. "Munich" 1—all from Rotterdam.
No case of Plague, and no case of Cholera, were notified
nor were any deaths registered, in London during 1909.
DIPHTHERIA.
During 1909, 57 deaths were registered in the Borough of
Lambeth from Diphtheria, and a total of 373 cases were notified,
giving a case-mortality of 15.3 per cent. Of the 373
cases notified, 316* (i.e., 92.8 per cent.) were removed to
Hospital, and 57 died, giving a case-mortality of 16.5 per
cent. amongst the cases treated in Hospital; whilst 27 (i.e.,
7.2 per cent.) were treated at home, and 2 died, giving a
case-mortality of 7.4 per cent. amongst the patients treated
at home.
The case-mortality rate for the whole of the Borough of
Lambeth during 1909 is low, pointing to (1) the mildness of
the majority of the cases notified, and (2) the great value of
antitoxin in the treatment of Diphtheria, especially in the
very early stages of the disease. †
The decrease in the number of Diphtheria deaths throughout
the new Borough of Lambeth during 1909 is again
remarkable, as it was during 1908, 1907, 1906, 1905, 1904,
1903, 1902 and 1901, and will be seen, on comparison with
the yearly mortality average of the 10 years (1891-1900) for
the old Parish of Lambeth. This yearly average is 124, so
that during 1909 there has been a decrease in the mortalityrate,
in comparison, of 54.03 per cent. So, too, if the
*Of the 346 cases of Diphtheria removed to Hospital, 16 proved at
Hospital not to be suffering from that disease.
†59 bottles of antitoxin have been gratuitously distributed in Lambeth
Borough during 1909.