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and there was no history of infection; again, on December 3rd,
two others of the same family, aged respectively 5 and 9 years,
neither of these had been vaccinated. On December 9th, an
adult resident in the same house was also removed suffering
from small-pox, he had been vaccinated in childhood—four in all
from one house. On December 19th, from Tanner's Hill, five
other cases, all of one family, aged respectively 34, 11, and
4½ years were removed; these children had never been vaccinated.
Next day, December 20th, an adult residing in the same
house was also removed. The infection was clearly traced to
the previous family in New Cross Road, who were taken ill
November 23rd.
CHICKEN-POX.
This disease was made a notifiable disease in London on
February 7th, 1902, under Section 50(5) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, and cancelled January 6th, 1903; it was
again made a notifiable disease on April Bth of the present
year, and ceased to be so on November Bth. During the year
357 certificates were received relating to 340 cases.
SCARLET FEVER.
Of this disease, 425 certificates of notification were received,
representing 405 cases; of these, 345 were removed to hospital,
of these, 21 persons were returned from the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospital as not suffering from Scarlet Fever.
The deaths were 11, equal to a rate of 0-09 per 1,000 persons
living, whilst that for England and Wales was 0-11, for the 76
great towns 0.12, and for the Metropolis as a whole 0.08.
The cases were distributed as shown in Table No. 11, North
Deptford 147, South Deptford 134, Central Deptford 124.
DIPHTHERIA AND MEMBRANOUS CROUP.
There were received 203 notifications during the year,
representing 190 cases (for the previous year 460 were recorded);