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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The number of notified cases, 3,120, showed a very satisfactory
decrease on that reported in the preceding year, when 4,851 cases
were known. It is also less than the return of 1892 when 3,309
certificates were received.
The figures for each of the years since the notification of Infectious
Diseases became compulsory, are as follows:—
1891 2,014
1892 3,309
1893 4,851
1894 3,120
It is a most notable fact that the decrease was not confined to one
disease alone, but was common to each of those that are notifiable.
Thus Small Pox showed a decrease of 29 cases, Scarlet Fever of 1,386,
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup of 17, Enteric and Continued
Fever of 6, Erysipelas of 277 and Puerperal Fever of 15.
These make a total decrease on the preceding year's returns of
1,731 cases, which is eminently satisfactory.
The principal decline occurred with Scarlet Fever, which fell from
2,879 eases in 1893 to 1,493, or a decrease of 51.8 per cent. In the
various wards of the parish the number of notifications for 1893 and
1894, were as follows:—
1893 1894 Decrease.
Upper Holloway 1,470 1,068 402
Lower Holloway 554 434 120
Highbury 925 463 462
Thornhill 551 326 225
Barnsbury 335 195 140
St. Mary's 259 181 78
Canonbury 334 170 164
St. Peter's 423 283 140
The sickness rates, or the cases of infectious diseases notified per
thousand of the population, were as follows:—
1891 6.3
1892 10.2
1893 14.7
1894 9.4