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NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The infectious diseases notifiable under Section 55 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, are:—Small-Pox, Cholera,
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup, Erysipelas, the diseases known
as Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever, and the Fevers known by any of
the following names:-Typhus, Typhoid, Enteric, Relapsing,
Continued or Puerperal.
The total number of cases notified during the year
amounted to 1,442, of which number 1,138, or 78.92 per cent.,
were removed for isolation to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's
Hospitals or other Institutions. In 52 instances, or 4.58
per cent. of the cases removed, the Hospital authorities returned
the patient as not suffering from any notifiable disease. Deducting
these from the gross total, we have a corrected total
of 1390 cases of infectious disease notified as occurring in the
Borough during the year, an increase of 203 over the number
notified in the preceding year, which was 1187. In 1907, 1,028
cases were notified.
Age Periods.—45.6 per cent. of the Scarlet Fever cases,
compared with 45.8 per cent. in 1908, and nearly 50 per cent. of
the Diphtheria cases, compared with 53 per cent. in 1908,
occurred among children aged six years and under.