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Hospital from outside districts (2) we have a corrected total of
59 cases. Twenty-five of these were removed to Hospital.
The case mortality equalled 15.2 per cent, of the attacks.
The attack rute for the whole Borough was 0"44 per 1,000.
On sub-dividing the cases over the various Wards, the highest
attack rate, 0.66, occurred in Sydenham, and the lowest in
Forest Hill. (See Table 18).
ERYSIPELAS.—112 persons were notified as suffering from
this disease, none of which proved fatal.
PUERPERAL FEVER.—Fourteen cases were certified,
distributed over the Broekley, Catford, Forest Hill, and Sydenham
Wards. The attack rate for the whole Borough amounted to
0.10 per 1,000. Of the cases notified, 6, or 43 per cent., proved
fatal.
Errors of Diagnosis.—It is most satisfactory to note, that
of the total number of Small Pox, Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria
patients sent to Hospitals, amounting to 864, mistaken diagnosis
occurred in only 32 instances, or in 3'7 per cent, of the total
cases. The figures for the year compare most favourably with
those of previous years. (See Table 21).
School Closure.—It became necessary to close the Church
Street Schools, Lee, owing to an outbreak of diptheria and the
defective condition of the drainage.
During March a private College at Blackheath was closed
for the same reasons.
An outbreak of Measles in the Infants' Department of the
Plassy Road Board School necessitated the closing of Class room
D for a period of three weeks in November.