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If the age constitution of the districts be taken into account,
there was no very marked excess in any particular Ward, though
there was slightly more in the Smith than in the North of the Parish.
692 or 81.7 per cent, of those suffering from the disease were removed
to the hospitals of the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Mortality. —The fatality of the disease was somewhat less than
last year, there being 33 deaths, representing a case mortality of
3.9 per cent., compared with 4.3 per cent, in 1898. Of the 692
patients removed to hospital 31 or 4.5 per cent., and of the 155 treated
at home 2. or 1,3 percent, died.
Return Cases. — In 10 instances the disease occurred within 10
days of the return of a child living in the same house from one of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals, after recovery from a similar
attack.
DIPHTHERIA.
There was again an increase in the prevalence of this disease in
Fulham, 514 cases of Diphtheria and 14 of Membranous Croup, which
is identical with Laryngeal Diphtheria; the incidence-rate being
4.0 per 1,000, compared with 3.0, 3.2, and 3.8 in the three preceding
years.