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Shoreditch the zymotic death rate was highest in the Haggerston sub-district, and
lowest in the New Town sub-district. (See Appendix, table XXXII.)
The notifications of infectious disease received during 1897 numbered 1331;
the numbers received during previous years are contained in the following table:—

The number of notifications received during 1897, was equal to an annual attack
rate of 10.9 per 1,000 inhabitants. The rates for previous years are contained in
the third column of the above table. During 1897 in the Metropolis 45,465 cases of
infectious disease were notified under the provisions of the Public Health (Lond.)
Act, 1891. With a metropolitan population estimated at 4,463,169, this figure gives
an attack-rate of 10.1 per thousand inhabitants.
The subjoined table contains a list of the notifiable infectious diseases, the
numbers of cases of the several diseases notified during the four quarters of the year
in Shoreditch, together with the numbers and percentages of cases notified which
were removed to the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board from Shoreditch.