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removed to hospital, mainly to the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, was
755, or 98 per cent.
SMALLPOX.
A case was certified and removed to hospital as being one of smallpox, but it
proved not to be one of this disease. Attention was directed to a few cases which
aroused suspicion, but they all turned out to be other than smallpox, nor is there
any reason for believing that any cases occurred in Shoreditch during the year. In
September two families resident in the Borough were under observation as contacts
in connection with a case in an adjoining Borough. The usual precautions were taken,
and none of the members of the families who had been exposed to infection manifested
any sign of the disease.
The cases certified in the Metropolis numbered 16, of which 9 were notified during
September. Only one terminated fatally.
SCARLET FEVER.
The cases certified numbered 391, of which 4, or 1.2 per cent., were subsequently
not regarded as scarlet fever.

The cases are grouped according to ages in Table II (Appendix). Of the cases
certified 383, or 97.9 per cent., were removed to hospital. The cases certified were
at the rate of 3.7 per 1,000 inhabitants, being slightly below the average for the previous
10 years. The attack-rate per 1,000 population in the Borough was lowest in Acton,
and highest in Church Ward, being 1.4 in the former, as compared with 5.3 in the
latter.