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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Notification of Infectious Diseases
During the year 1897, 904 cases of infectious
disease were notified by medical practitioners, an increase
of 250 compared with the year 1897. The numbers for
the previous years were in 1892, 588, in 1893, 868, in
1894, 444, in 1895, 445, and in 1896, 654.
Scarlet Fever shows a large increase, viz.: 101 over
last year, while Diphtheria shows a very large increase.
This was, as has been already stated, due to two outbreaks
in February and March, which have been dealt with in
another part of this report.
The annual rate for these notifiable diseases per
1,000 persons living was, in this parish, 14.7 compared
with 11.1 in 1S96, and 7.6 in 1895. For the whole
Metropolis for the year the rate was 10.2, compared with
11.1 in 1896, and 9.5 in 1895.
The death-rate per 1,000 from all notifiable diseases
was 1.1, compared with .66 in 1896, while for the whole
Metropolis the rate was .81, compared with .72 in 1896.
This increase was wholly due to the deaths from Diphtheria,
the total number of which was 50 compared with
13 in 1896.
The total number of deaths was 72, of which 50 took
place from Diphtheria, and 12 from Scarlet Fever. 26 of
these deaths occurred in hospital and 46 died at home.
This was equal to 7.9 per cent. of the cases notified,
compared with 5.9 in 1896, 6.9 in 1895, 10 36 in 1894,
and 8 8 in 1893.
The number of the several diseases, the number