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The amount paid in fees for notifications of infectious disease
was .£44 6s. The lowest was £41 12s. 6d. in 1912, and the
highest was £176 16s. in 1902 at the time of the small-pox
epidemic. The sums paid for notifications of tuberculosis were:
to Poor Law Medical Officers, £3 9s.; to private doctors and
members of hospitals staffs, £64 9s. 9d. The fees paid under
the Diphtheria Anti-toxin (London) Order, 1910, amounted to
17s. 6d.
Diagnosis.—In 15 cases out of a total number of 376, the
patients after admission to a fever hospital were returned home
as not suffering, at the time of admission, from any notifiableinfectious
disease. Most of these mistakes were made by the
house staffs of large general hospitals. The errors were chiefly
in connection with scarlet fever—out of 261 cases removed, 10
were returned home as not having the disease.
Deaths.—The number of deaths certified in 1913 as due to
the infectious diseases named in the accompanying table, was
226. The corresponding death rate was 21 per 1,000 inhabitants.

The diminution this year is associated with the lessened number
of deaths accredited to diphtheria and measles.