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CHICKEN-POX (Varicella).
On March 29th, the London County Council made the following
Order:—
" The London County Council do hereby Resolve and Order
that Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, with
respect to the notification of infectious disease shall apply in the
Administrative County of London, for a period of four calendar
months, to the disease known as Chicken-Pox; and the Council
do hereby declare that the case is one of emergency owing to
the recent increase in the number of cases of Small-pox in London
and the fact that the failure in certain cases to distinguish
between Chicken-pox and Small-pox has led and is likely to lead
to the spread of the latter disease."
The order was advertised on 31st. March, 1904, and in accordance
with the Statute, came into operation at the expiration of one week
from that date. Subsequently the order was extended for three
additional months (expiring on November 7th). We received 197
notifications as follows:—
Under 1 1-5 5-15 15-20 20-30 30- Total.
Males 10 55 38 — 1 — 104
Females 12 54 24 2 1 — 93
Totals 22 109 62 2 2 — 197
Only one case which had been notified as Chicken-pox proved
to be Small-pox.
DIPHTHERIA.
There have been 123 notifications of Diphtheria (including
Membranous Croup) received during the year, as compared with
119 in 1903, 216 in 1902 and 289 in 1901.