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110
The numbers for previous years are appended:—

The above table excludes notifications of Chicken-Pox—there were 181 in 1911.
The amount paid in fees for notifications of infectious disease
was £69 6s. 6d. 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 sum paid for notifications of tuberculosis was
£55 2s. 6d. The fees paid under the Diphtheria Antitoxin
(London) Order, 1910, amounted to £2 1s.
Diagnosis.—In 20 cases out of a total number of 588, the
patients after admission to a fever hospital were returned home
as not suffering, at the time of admission, from any notifiable
infectious disease. Most of these mistakes were made by the
house staffs of large general hospitals. The errors were chiefly
in connection with scarlet fever.
Deaths.—The number of deaths certified in 1914 as due to
the infectious diseases named in the accompanying table, was 236.
The corresnonding death rate was 2.8 per 1.000 inhabitants.

The increase this year is associated with the larger number of
deaths accredited to measles and hooping cough.