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Scarlet Fever.
This disease was considerably less prevalent in 1935 than in
the previous year, the number of cases notified being 201 as compared
with 292 in 1934. The disease was most widely prevalent
in the early months of the year, 89 cases being notified during the
first quarter. 170 cases were admitted to the Isolation Hospital.
The disease generally was of a very mild type, but one death occurred
—the first from scarlet fever for four years. In this case, the
patient, a young child, died of broncho-pneumonia complicating
scarlet fever.
Diphtheria.
Thirty-nine notifications of diphtheria were received as compared
with thirty-one in the previous year. All these cases were
removed to the Isolation Hospital. The disease tended to be of
an increasingly severe type and three of the cases admitted to
hospital died. Another death occurred in a school child belonging
to Wood Green, who turned ill while on a visit to friends in the
country, and died after admission to an isolation hospital.