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Table XII.— Case-Mortality of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria.
Diphtheria.
Scarlet Fever.
1895
19.5
5.3
1896
18.4
4.2
2.7
14.3
1897
1898
12.4
1.9
Enteric fever caused 25 deaths, compared with 28 deaths
that occurred in 1898. Twenty-one of these occurred at home,
while four occurred in outside hospitals. Eight occurred in
Camberwell, 12 in Peckham and five in St. George's.
During the year there were five notifications of small-pox,
two of these came from St. George's, two from Peckham,
and one from Camberwell. Of these four were removed to
hospital, but in all the four instances the cases were returned
with a note written in the usual dogmatic style stating that the
patients were not suffering from small-pox. With regard to
two of these cases, namely those from St. George's, I should
be thoroughly disposed to agree. The two from Peckham
were both diagnosed after consultation with hospital physicians;
one I feel myself, however, doubtful about, but the second I
do think was a case of small-pox. The one from Camberwell
was very doubtful from the beginning. The strictest precautions,
however, were taken in these three cases, and I
think it is probably due to this that there was no further
extension of the disease.
The total number of certificates of notification received
during last year amounted to 2,129, but the actual number of
persons attacked was 2,002, the difference being due to duplicate
notification, and to the fact that there were some notifications
of cases outside the Parish. In Table XIII. the cases are
shown arranged according to the locality in which they occuned,
and the numbers are also given of the persons that were removed
to hospital. The table is made up as follows:-Diphtheria
(including 25 cases of membranous croup), 690, as compared
with 1,161 in 1897 and 1,420 in 1896; scarlet fever, 937,
viii.