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NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The total number of notifications received during the
year amounted to 879, forty-seven of which were returned
from hospital as not suffering from any infectious disease.
After deducting this number a corrected total of 832 is obtained,
compared with 1282 in 1902. No figures are available
for correction amongst cases treated at home.
The notifiable infectious diseases are Small Pox, Cholera,
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup, Erysipelas, the disease known
as Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever, and the fevers known by any of
the following names Typhus, Typhoid, Enteric, Relapsing,
Continued or Puerperal. (Section 55 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891).
Mistaken Diagnosis.—Information on this subject is only
available in regard to infectious diseases admitted to hospital,
which are Small Pox, Typhoid Fever, Scarlet Fever and
Diphtheria, no information being possible in regard to persons
nursed at home. During the years 1899, 1900 and 1901,
the percentages of errors for the County of London were 6'3,
7.9 and 9.2, and for Lewisham, 6.0, 6.5 and 9.3, respectively.
Of the total cases removed to hospital during 1903 (591), the
percentage of errors amounted to 7'9 per cent.