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on the subject prevent even Medical Officers of Health
from looking at the question in an unprejudiced light.
The seriousness of the evil to be grappled with must
eventually demand that the question will be looked at
in an unprejudiced light. There was a time, not so far
back, when it was not realised that the facts in reference
to small.pox demanded that the disease should be
properly dealth with. I can remember a medical man
making a formal complaint against me to the magistrate
at the Hammersmith Police Court because I had
removed a patient of his suffering from small.pox and
had disinfected the premises.
SCARLET FEVER.
Three hundred and fourteen cases were reported as
due to scarlet fever, against 349 in the previous year.
Two hundred and fifty six cases reported last year were
isolated at Isolation Hospitals, and 58 cases were
treated at the homes of the patients. Eight deaths
were registered. The mortality rate on the cases
reported in the Borough was only 2.5 per cent.
DIPHTHERIA AND DIPHTHERITIC MEMBRANOUS
CROUP.
One hundred and ninety cases were reported as
due to diphtheria or diphtheritic membranous croup,
against 172 cases in the previous year. One hundred
and nineteen reported last year were treated at the
Isolation Hospitals, and 41 at the homes of the patients.
Nineteen deaths were registered. The mortality rate
on the cases reported in the Borough was 11.9 per cent.
WHOOPING COUGH.
One hundred and thirty two cases were reported as
due to whooping cough, against 78 cases in the previous
year. All of the cases reported last year were treated