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SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS OR ZYMOTIC DISEASE.
The deaths from the chief specific disease, both notifiable and nonnotifiable,
numbered 419, which is equivalent to a zymotic mortality
of 1.9 per 1000 living, that for London for the same period being 1.7
per 1000 living,
A. NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Small-Pox.—During 1903 there were only four cases of this
disease notified in the Borough, one of which was subsequently
found not to be small-pox.
Scarlet Fever.—The number of cases of Scarlet Fever notified
in Hackney during 1903 was 676, but of these 40 were subsequently
determined by the Medical Superintendents of the hospitals to
which the patients were removed, not to be suffering from this
disease. This makes the total number of genuine cases notified
during the year 636, which is equivalent to an attack rate of 2.8 per
1,000 living persons. This shows an improvement upon the year
1902, when the cases notified numbered 869, and the attack rate
was nearly 4 per 1,000 living. Of the 676 cases notified, 573 were
removed to hospital. This is equal to 87.7 per cent. of the total. The
chart given with this report shows this disease to have been prevalent
during the whole year, the fluctuations in the incidence not being very
marked. The following table also shows that the disease was pretty
evenly distributed over the Borough, being, perhaps a little more
marked in the central than in the remaining sub-districts.