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previous year. There were also 40 cases that were not
notifiable under the Act, reported as due to infectious
diseases, against 104 in the previous year.
SMALL-POX.
No case was reported as due to small-pox against
one case in the previous year.
CHICKEN-POX.
No case of chicken-pox was reported against 5 cases in
the previous year.
MEASLES.
Eleven cases were reported as due to measles
against 74 cases in the previous year. Four cases were
not reported until after death, and in 7 cases the patients
were suffering from the disease at the time when
information was received. As this is not a notifiable
disease it is of no use my giving the mortality rate on
the cases as reported, as, no doubt, a very small proportion
which occurred were reported to me.
SCARLET FEVER.
Three hundred and ninety-nine cases were reported
as due to scarlet fever, against 528 in the previous
year. Two hundred and twelve cases reported last
year were isolated at Isolation Hospitals, 207 at the
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Western Fever Hospital, 5
at the London Fever Hospital at Islington, and 187 at the
homes of the patients. The mortality rate on the cases
reported was 2.5 per cent.
DIPHTHERIA AND DIPHTHERITIC MEMBRANOUS
CROUP.
One hundred and fifty-eight cases were reported as
due to diphtheria and diphtheritic membranous croup,
against 217 cases in the previous year. Sixty cases reported
last year were treated at the Metropolitan Asylum