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SCARLET FEVER.
Of this disease 516 certificates of notification were received,
representing 501 cases, of these 434 were removed to Hospital.
Six persons were returned from the Metropolitan Asylum
Board's Hospitals as not suffering from Scarlet Fever. The
deaths were 23, equal to a rate of 0.20 per 1,000 persons living.
The number of " return cases " was 21.
The infant's department of Alverton Street Board School was
closed in consequence cf the prevalence of this disease from
October 2nd to October 10th, by order of Dr. Kerr, the Medical
Officer to the School Board for London.
DIPHTHERIA AND MEMBRANOUS CROUP.
There were received 478 certificates during the year,
representing 460 cases ; 25 persons were returned from the
Hospital as not suffering from Diphtheria or Membranous
Croup, the deaths were 45, equal to an annual rate of 0.40 per
1,000 persons living. 86 Bacteriological Examinations were
made by the Clinical Research Association, with the result that
38 were positive and 48 negative.
In consequence of the number of cases of this disease
amongst the children attending- Alverton Street Board School,
I had the infants department closed from July 7th to the end of
the summer holidays, during which time the rooms were disinfected
by the Council's staff.
TYPHUS FEVER.
Two cases were notified, one imported from Bermondsey on
January 23rd, notified as Enteric Fever and removed to the
Metropolitan Asylum Board's Brook Hospital, January 27th,
and reported by the hospital authorities on January 31st as a
case of Typhus. The other case was admitted to the South-
Eastern Metropolitan Asylum Board's Hospital from the
Greenwich Union Infirmary, May iith. and discharged on
May 16th as not Typhus.