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The list of causes of death (Table 3) has been considerably
altered, the Local Government Board having, in conjunction with
the Registrar General, adopted a form condensed from that known
as the " International List," which is also used widely in other
countries. The compilation is systematised by a manual which has
been issued by the Registrar-General. In following this manual
when compiling Table 3, I noticed that the Table as issued by the
Local Government Board did not correspond exactly with that
stated in the manual as having been adopted by the RegistrarGeneral
and the Local Government Board, i.e., there are headings
" meningitis " and " organic heart disease " in the latter which do
not appear in the former, and other small differences. In order to
make the Table 3 of the Local Government Board correspond with
the list of diseases given by the Registrar-General, I found it
necessary to re-number the headings, and to separate heart and
brain diseases from " other defined " diseases.
The Infant Mortality Table is also slightly altered as to headings,
and age-periods.
(a) NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Under the provisions of the Infectious Disease (Notification)
Acts, 1889 and 1899, the following diseases are compulsorily notifiable
in the District, viz., Small-pox, Cholera, Diphtheria, Membranous
Croup, Erysipelas, the disease known as Scarlet Fever or
Scarlatina, and the fevers known as any of the following names:—
Typhus, Typhoid or Enteric, Relapsing Continued and Puerperal.
Only 18 cases of infectious disease were notified, as against 69
in the previous year, and comprised 5 cases of Diphtheria, 7 of Erysipelas,
and 6 of Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria. Five non-fatal cases occurred—the same number
as in 1910.
The first case was a boy, aged 8, resident in Park Road, West
Chislehurst, and notified on February 14th.
The case was a severe one. and was treated in Hospital for
over three months.
Case 2 was a girl aged 6, notified from Whitehorse Hill, on
February 22nd.
The third case was notified from Albany Road, on March 31st
—a boy aged 5 years.