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The rise and fall of the disease is shown week by week on the
accompanying charts.
The schools attended by affected children are shown later. A
number of cases occurred in Covent Garden and Strand Wards, most of
the children going to schools in Holborn Borough.
A. number of cases occurred in connection with three schools in
Westminster but fortunately they were limited by the detection of the
source of infection.
There were four deaths, giving a low mortality rate, as shown below.
The death rate for London was 0.04 per 1,000, the five-yearly average
being 0.l0.
In 19 instances, 2 cases occurred during the year in the same house,
and in 6 instances 3 cases, and in 2 instances 4 cases. Two children
who had been in hospital developed infection after their return home
with the result that three other persons were infected. In 9 instances
the disease was eventually found not to be scarlet fever.
A man was fined 15s. at Great Marlborough Street Police Court for
taking his child to Bethnal Green after he had been told she was
suffering from Scarlet Fever.

Diphtheria.—From the subjoined table it will be seen that the
cases of diphtheria in Westminster were most numerous in the last
three months of the year. In London the prevalence of diphtheria
showed a considerable increase from September onwards. Table IX