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Total 241.
Total cases in year = 1,185.
Isolation Shelter. During the year this Shelter has only
been occupied by two families, viz., 6 adults and 7 children,
whilst their premises were being disinfected.
Contacts. Information has been received at various times
throughout the year from the different Port Authorities respecting
15 persons, residing in this Borough, who had been in contact
with cases of Small-pox and Plague whilst they had been on board
ship; these persons were kept under observation, but nothing
further developed.
Throughout the whole of the Metropolis there was a total ot
28,295 cases of infectious disease notified, giving an attack rate of
6.1 per 1,000 living. This attack rate varied throughout the
whole of London from 3.2 in Chelsea, 3.7 in Kensington, City of
Westminster, and Hampstead, 4.2 in Lewisham, 4.5 in Lambeth,
4.7 in Paddington and City of London, 4.8 in Holborn, 49 in
Battersea, 5.0 in Greenwich, up to 7.l in Deptford, 7.2 in Bermondsey,
8.5 in Hackney, 9-3 in Poplar, 9.4 in Stepney, and 116
in Bethnal Green. In these figures the Chicken-pox notifications
are not included.
Consumption. During the year there were 123 cases of
Consumption voluntarily notified, 54 being in East Greenwich, 29
in West Greenwich, 29 in St. Nicholas, and 11 in Charlton. Of