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14 in West Greenwich, 15 in St. Nicholas, 8 in Charlton, and 1 in
Kidbrooke. Eight of the patients were under treatment in the
Hospitals.
Scarlet Fever. There were 164 cases of Scarlet Fever
notified during the year, which is a very small number in comparison
with the 459 notifications of the previous year, being a
drop of some 60 per cent. Sixty-seven of these cases occurred in
East Greenwich, 43 in West Greenwich, 11 in St. Nicholas, 32 in
Charlton, and 11 in Kidbrooke. The ages of the patients being
2 under one year of age, 56 between one and five years, 83 between
five and fifteen years, 17 between fifteen and twenty-five years, and
6 over twenty-five years.
Of this total number, 138 or 84 per cent, were treated in the
Hospital. There were 7 deaths from this disease during the year,
which gives a case mortality of 4 per cent. Of the cases of this
disease removed to the Hospital, 4 were afterwards returned as
not suffering from the disease ; the diagnosis being in two cases
Catarrh, in one Tonsillitis, and in one case the disease was not
stated. There were 8 of what are usually termed return cases
of Scarlet Fever during the year, the shortest time which elapsed
in these cases between the date of discharge from the Hospital
of the first case and the date of removal of the second case was
five days, the longest interval being nineteen days.
Fuller particulars respecting these cases are appended : —