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Years. Number of Cases notified Number of Deaths Death Rate per 1,000
1897 597 26 0.24
1898 518 30 0.27
1899 480 18 0.16
1900 227 12 0.11
1901 495 19 0.18
1902 381 15 0.14
The distribution of the disease in Finsbury in 1902 has been
fairly uniform, although there have been one or two groups
around certain schools.
Direct infection has been traceable to schools in 10 instances
only. Eleven cases have been attributed to infection derived
from cases returned from hospital. In several of these cases
enquiry elicits that the returning children had a discharge from
eyes or nose and it is possible infection may have been
carried in this way. In 103 of the cases direct personal contact
with previous cases has been traced as the source of infection.
MEASLES.
As this is not a notifiable disease we can only gauge its prevalence
and degree of severity by means of the death returns and
school returns. Including both intra and extra-parochial returns
there were 83 deaths attributed to Measles during the year,
giving a death-rate of 0.81 per 1,000. The London death-rate
for Measles for 1902 was 0.50 per 1,000, there being 2,360 deaths
from that cause as against 1,952 in 1901. Seventy-nine out of
the 83 deaths in Finsbury occurred under 5 years of age, 20 of
these occurring in infants under 1 year. It is probable that these
figures do not by any means indicate the destruction of life due