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Non-Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
Chicken pox.
During 1920 there were 615 cases of chicken-pox
voluntarily notified, as compared with 271 cases reported in
1919.
Influenza
The epidemic of influenza, which began in the late summer
of 1918 and reached its height during the fourth quarter of
that year, continued the first quarter of 1919, and then began
to gradually decliae. There was a recrudescence of the disease
in 1920, 57 deaths occurring from this cause—mainly in the
first two quarters of the year. The number of deaths from
the disease during 1920 are shown in the following table
arranged in Wards:—
Wards.
Deaths
from
Influenza.
Death-rate
per 1000
Population
No. 1 (Nine Elms) 8 .30
„ 2 (Park) 10 .58
„ 3 (Latchmere) 9 .45
„ 4 (Shaftesbury) 5 .32
„ 5 (Church) 5 .26
„ 6 (Winstanley) 4 .20
„ 7 (St. John) 2 .25
„ 8 (Bolingbroke) 2 .11
„ 9 (Broomwood) 12 .60
The Borough 57 .34