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SCARLET FEVER.
Five hundred and twenty-eight cases were reported
as due to scarlet fever, against 382 cases in the previous
year. Two hundred and eighty-five cases reported last
year were isolated at Isolation Hospitals, 274 at the
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Western Fever Hospital,
10 at the London Fever Hospital at Islington, 242 at the
homes of the patients, and 2 at St. George's Hospital.
The mortality rate on the cases reported was 3.78 per
cent.
DIPHTHERIA AND DIPHTHERITIC MEMBRANOUS CROUP.
Two hundred and seventeen cases were reported as
due to diphtheria and diphtheritic membranous croup,
against 202 cases in the previous year. Seventy-six
cases reported last year were treated in the Isolation
Hospitals, 73 at the Metropolitan Asylums Board's
Western Fever Hospital, and 3 at the London Fever
Hospital. Ten cases were treated at the West London
Hospital, 2 at the Hospital for Sick Children, 1 at St.
George's Hospital, and 128 at the homes of the patients.
The mortality rate on the total cases reported in the
parish was 23.51 per cent.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Sixty-one cases were reported last year as due to
whooping cough, against 42 cases in the previous year.
Sixty of the cases reported last year were treated at home,
and were not reported until after death, and 1 case was
not reported until after recovery. As this is not a notifiable
disease it is of no use my giving the mortality rate on
the cases reported, as, doubtless, a very large number
of cases occurred which recovered and were not known of
in your Public Health Department.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Fifty-three cases were reported last year as due to
enteric fever, against 57 in the previous year. Ten of the
cases reported last year were treated at the Western Fever