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COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
The Table at page 141, shows the number of notifications
of the diseases scheduled in section 55 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, after correction for duplicate
returns, in the entire Metropolis, and in the several sanitary
areas comprised therein. The Table at page 142, is designed
to show the relative prevalence of the several diseases at
different periods of the year, being a summary of the figures
set out in my four-weekly reports. In this Table it has been
impossible to make the aforementioned correction : the grand
total differs to the number of 2,114 notifications. The Kensington
notifications were 1,811, viz., in the Town sub-district
1,441, and in the Brompton sub-district 370. The number in
1892 was 1,184. Table IX.A (Appendix) shows the streets,
&c., where cases of the scheduled diseases occurred. Owing
to the prevalence of scarlet fever and diphtheria, the cases
notified in London (67,485) show a great increase upon
previous years. The corrected notifications of each of the
scheduled diseases during the last four years are set out in
the subjoined Table.

The Notification Act of 1889 has been adopted by the
great majority of provincial Sanitary Authorities, urban and
rural. It is time, surely, that the Act should be made compulsory
for the whole kingdom, as it has been in London
from the first.