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WILLESDEN LOCAL BOARD
Chart of Notifications for 1893.
Notes: In the above Chart I think it is very noticeable how Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever have
frequently risen and fallen together; if not actually in the same week, yet in a short time there has been
a corresponding rise or fall, excepting during the autumn rise of Scarlet Fever, and even then there are
slight rises of Diphtheria to a certain extent with it.
It will be observed that when Scarlet Fever, on the last week in August, was lower than it had
been at any previous time, there were no cases of Diphtheria,, but Typhoid Fever reached its highest
point in the year, this was due to four members of one family being taken with it, and the Doctor who
notified was of opinion that the disease was contracted at the seaside.