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1910] 108

Sub-Registration Districts.— It is satisfactory to find that compared
with the preceding year each of these districts, with the exception of
Upper Holloway, showed a decrease in the number of notifiable infectious
diseases reported, and, even there, there was no increase, for the number was
identical with that of 1909. The number of cases and the attack rates are set
out in the statement given on opposite page.
These satisfactory figures are seen to be even better than they appear
at first sight when they are compared with the numbers reported during
the preceding eight years, for it is found that in Tufnell they were 46
fewer than the average of 209; in Tollington 48 less than the average of
219; in Lower Holloway 129 less than the average of 301; in Highbury
176 less than the average of 375; in Barnsbury 69 less than the average of
364; in Islington South-East 199 less than the average of 478. In Upper
Holloway alone was the number of cases above the average, which they
exceeded by 21. This was partly due to an outbreak of Diphtheria which
occurred at the Workhouse among very young children.
The statement (Table in the Appendix) showing the number for each
district, it is satisfactory to note that compared with 1902 there is a very
large decrease in the number of cases in each district, and even when compared
with each of the preceding years the return is in some instances the
lowest hitherto known, as for instance in Lower Holloway and Islington