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192
cases of illness that were not notifiable under the Act,
reported as due to infectious diseases, against 57 in the
previous year.
SMALL-POX.
Seven cases were reported as due to small-pox last year,
against 21 cases in the previous year. Of the seven cases
which were reported last year, one was treated at the home of
the patient, and six were removed by the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, at the request of your Vestry, to the
Hospital Ships at Dartford. No death occurred. All of
the seven patients attacked had been vaccinated in infancy,
but had never been re-vaccinated. It is to be noted that,
although these patients contracted the disease none of
them died. No doubt the protection afforded by vaccination
in infancy so far mitigated the severity of the complaint
as to prevent a fatal termination.
CHICKEX-POX.
One case of chicken-pox was reported last year against
no case in the previous year. The case reported last year
was treated at the home of the patient.
MEASLES.
Eighty-six cases were reported last year as due to
measles, against six cases on the previous year. Seventytwo
cases were not reported until after death, and in 14
cases the patients were at the time the disease was reported
still suffering from the complaint. Eighty cases reported:
last year were treated at the homes of the patients, one at
the West London Hospital, and five at the Fulham Union
Infirmary. As this is not a notifiable disease, it is of no
use my giving the mortality rate on the cases reported, as,
no doubt, a very small proportion of the cases which
occurred were reported to me.
SCARLET FEVER
Three hundred and thirty-two cases were reported as
due to scarlet fever, against 673 cases in the previous
year. One hundred and seventy-six cases reported last
year were isolated in Isolation Hospitals, 171 at the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospitals, and five at the London