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SCARLET FEVER.
Excluding duplicate notifications 96 cases were notified, and 90 of them were removed to
hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board or the London Fever Hospital. Only 5 cases were
notified in St. Sepulchre, of which 4 were removed to hospital, and in Glasshouse Yard only 1 case,
which was removed to hospital.
There were fewer notifications of this disease both in the District and in London than in 1899.
In the first half of the year only 22 cases were notified.
The principal incidence of the disease was during the months of July, August, September
and October.
Of the District cases 4 died, 1 belonging to St. Sepulchre ; and of the London cases 361 died.
A case of Scarlet Fever that was not diagnosed until desquamation had begun was the cause
of 5 other cases in the same house, and a similar cause led to 2 other cases in another house.
DIPHTHERIA.
The number of cases of Diphtheria was 65, of wich 9 belonged to St. Sepulchre and one
to Glasshouse Yard. Of these 56 were removed to hospitals for treatment; all the cases in
St. Sepulchre and Glasshouse Yard were so removed.
The number of notifications for the three preceding years were in 1899, 65; in 1898, 138;
and in 1897, 158 cases; so that Diphtheria has much declined in the District during the past
two years.
The cases were sparsely scattered throughout the District during the year.
The number of deaths from Diphtheria was 5, or a mortality of under 8 per cent. One of the
deaths belonged to St. Sepulchre.
In London the number of cases notified was 11,985 (including 209 cases of Membranous
Croup) and the number of deaths was 1,558 or a mortality of 13.0 per cent.