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TABLE L.
Small Pox caused
8 deaths,
2.21 per cent.,
or 1.in 45.12 deaths.
Measles „
89 „
24.65 „
„ 405 „
Scarlatina „
18 „
4.98 „
„ 20.05 „
Diphtheria „
48 „
13.30 „
„ 7.52 „
Whooping Cough „
44 „
12.19 „
„ 8.20 „
Typhus Fever „
- „
- „
„ - „
Enteric Fever „
6 „
1.66 „
„ 60.02 „
Simple Fever „
1 „
0.27 „
„ 361.00 „
Diarrhœa „
147 „
40.72 „
„ 2.45 „
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASE.
The total number of notification certificates received
during the year was 2,119; of these 116 were duplicates,
a proportion of five and a half per cent. on the whole
number. Nine certificates were forwarded to the
Medical Officers of other Boroughs, as they referred
to persons ordinarily resident outside Bethnal Green.
One certificate was withdrawn by the sender; three
chicken pox certificates were disallowed, as they were
received after the expiration of the order; four others
were cancelled, as they referred to persons whose addresses
could not be traced. The certificates relate to
a total of 1,994 persons. Table III. in the appendix
indicates the number of persons suffering from each
disease. It also shews the sub-districts in which they
had resided and the number (655) of those removed to
hospital.
The most virulent of the notifiable diseases are
Small pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and Chicken pox,
yet we find that numbers of children suffering from
some one of these and consequently in a highly