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Diseases, Ages, and Localities. Table B., on the other hand,
is not concerned with Mortality, but with Population, Births,
and Infectious sickness. It goes without saying that it
would be absurd for me to calculate the death-rates in the
manner indicated by the Local Government Board. These printed
forms are doubtless valuable to Medical Officers of Health in
areas larger and more thickly populated than is the case with
your "Township" of the Middle Temple. Any deductions drawn
from such a source would merely furnish fallacious and misleading
figures.
THE NOTIFICATION OP INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Certain infectious diseases have been made notifiable in
London since the passing of the Infectious Diseases
(Notification) Act, 1889. They comprise:- Small-pox,
cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, the diseases
known as scarlatina or scarlet fever, and the fevers known by
any of the following names:- typhus, typhoid, enteric,
relapsing, continued, or puerperal.
With the single exception, in 1894, of a case of scarlatina,
which ended in recovery, no notifications of any of the
mentioned diseases have been received by me during the years
1898 and 1894. Neither have there been any deaths recorded