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The number of notifications received during the year was 991,
as compared with 1,129 and 1,184 for the two previous years.
Table No. 3 shows the distribution of these cases in the
North, South, and Central Districts of the Borough, and those
sent to Hospital for treatment.
SMALL- POX.
Two notifications of small-pox were received during the year.
One in May referred to a child, aged one year and seven months,
who contracted the disease on board the S.S. "Cheshire" from
Rangoon; the other referred to a young woman, aged 23 years,
who was removed to Hospital but afterwards found not to be
suffering from small-pox.
In the previous year 11 cases occurred in the Borough. In
the County of London 74 cases were notified during the year.
SCARLET FEVER.
The notifications of scarlet fever numbered 631, compared
with 425, 638, and 550 in the three previous years.
The 631 notifications related to 603 cases. Of these 594 were
removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals for
treatment, 12 proved to be errors of diagnoses, leaving therefore
591 cases. The deaths were 9, and in the three preceding years
11, 18, and 17.
The rate of mortality was 0.07 per 1,000 of the population.
The rate of mortality for England and Wales was 0.11, for the
75 great provincial towns 0.13, for the 141 smaller provincial
towns 0.11, and for the Metropolis as a whole 0.12.
The cases were distributed as shown in Table No. 3, North
Deptford 223, South Deptford 145, Central Deptford 235.
DIPHTHERIA AND MEMBRANOUS CROUP.
There were received 168 notifications representing 149 cases,
compared with 190, 257 and 414 for the three preceding years; the
number of cases removed to the hospital was 115, of these 18 were
returned as errors of diagnosis, the deaths registered were 9, for the
three previous years they were 16, 18 and 34 respectively. The death
rate was 0.07 per 1,000 persons living. The rate of mortality for
England and Wales was 0.16, for the 75 great provincial towns 0.18,
for the 141 smaller provincial towns 0.15, and for the County of
London 0.12.