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In the above Table notifications for Chicken-pox are excluded.
Table III. (see end of report) sets out a number of further particulars
respecting these notifications, from which it will be seen (a) that
561 out of 745 infectious cases occurred in children under 15 years
of age, that is to say, broadly, of school age; (b) that although the
population of North Clerkenwell and St. Luke are approximately
the same, many more cases of infectious disease (120 in fact) occurred
in the St. Luke division; and (c) that out of 745 patients 610 (or
81.8 per cent.) were removed to hospital. Respecting the second
conclusion, it will be observed that the excess in the St. Luke
division was mostly due to scarlet fever. Doubtless the explanation
for this excess is to be found in the greater density of population
and the larger percentage of persons living in model dwellings.