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small-pox.
Twenty-one cases were reported last year as due to smallpox,
against 3 cases in the previous year. Of the 21
cases which were reported last year 11 were treated at
the homes of the patients, and 10 were removed by the
Metropolitan Asylums Board to the Hospital Ship at
Dartford. Out of the total 21 cases reported, one death
occurred at the Metropolitan Asylum Board's Hospital
Ship at Dartford. The patient was a non-parishioner.
At the time when he was taken ill he was detained a
prisoner at H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubs. He had
just been admitted under a sentence of a month's imprisonment
The mortality rate on the cases reported was 4 76 per
cent. Seventeen of the patients attacked had been vaccinated
in infancy, 2 patients had never been vaccinated,
and in 2 cases no information as to vaccination was
obtainable. In one case a patient was stated to have
been re-vaccinated nine years ago.
chicken-pox.
No case was reported as due to chicken-pox last year,
against six cases in the previous year.
measles.
Six cases were reported last year as due to measles,
against 176 cases in the previous year. Four cases were
not reported until after death; and in 2 cases the
patients were at the time the disease was reported still
suffering from the complaint. The 6 cases reported last
year were treated at the homes of the patients. As this
is not a notifiable disease, it is not worth while giving the
mortality rate on the cases reported.
scarlet fever.
Six hundred and seventy-three cases were reported as
due to scarlet fever, against 462 cases in the previous
year. Two hundred and twenty-three cases reported last
year were treated in Isolation Hospitals, 220 at the Western
District Hospital at Fulham, 1 at the North-Western
Hospital, Haverstock Hill, 2 at the London Fever Hospital
at Islington, and 450 at the homes of the patients.
The mortality rate on the cases reported was 4.75 per
cent.