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SCARLET FEVER.—The total number of cases notified
during the year amounted to 682, compared with 466 in 1912.
Of this number, 566, or 83.0 per cent., were removed to
the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals. Subsequently 6
cases were returned to their homes and stated not to be suffering
from any notifiable disease. Deducting this number, a corrected
total of 676 is obtained, compared with 459 in 1912, equal to
an attack rate of 3.92 per 1,000 persons, compared with 2.78 in
1912. The attack rate for the County of London was 3.89 per
1,000.
An examination of the attack rates for the various Wards
of the Borough shows that the highest occurred in Brockley
Ward (5.82 per 1,000) and that the Ward least affected
was Blackheath, with 0.44 per 1,000.
45.41 per cent, of the cases occurred among children
between the ages of 5 and 10 years, and 20.26 per cent,
among children under the age of five.
Case Mortality.—Five deaths from Scarlet Fever
occurred to residents in the Borough, equal to 0.74 per cent, of
the cases notified, compared with 1.30 in the previous year.
DIPHTHERIA.—Four hundred and twenty-nine cases of
Diphtheria were notified, compared with 434 in 1912, and of this
number 360, or 83.91 per cent., were removed to hospital.
Twenty-five patients (or 6.94 per cent, of the number removed)
were returned as not suffering, giving a corrected total of
404, a decrease of 15 on the number notified in 1912. The
attack rate per 1,000 of the population amounted to 2.34,
compared with 2.54 in 1912. The rate for the County of
London was 1.70 per 1,000.
Forest Hill Ward suffered most from this disease, in
proportion to its population, having an attack rate of 4.38
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