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what is known as Traumatic Erysipelas. The following shews
the number of cases occurring during each year since the commencement
of the system of notification, from which it will be
seen that the record of this year is most satisfactory in being not
only far below the annual average, but the lowest recorded in
any year:—
Year.
Number of cases of
Erysipelas notified.
1890 250
1891 240
1892 333
1893 439
1894 325
1895 244
1896 263
1897 225
1898 178
1899 204
1900 165
Annual average for 10 preceding years 270
Age Distribution.—The age period from twenty-five to sixtyfive
was as usual, the most largely affected, considerably more
than one half of the cases occurring at those ages. The following
was the age distribution of the whole of the cases notified
Under one year of age, five; from one to five years, two; from
five to fifteen years, eleven; from fifteen to twenty-five years,
twenty-one ; from twenty-five to sixty-five, one hundred and ten;
and above sixty-five years, sixteen.
Local Distribution.—Sixty-five cases occurred in East Battersea,
ninety-five in West Battersea and five were developed in
the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary. The following
table shews the distribution of the cases in the eight Sanitary
Districts, and for the purposes of comparison those of the two
preceding years :—