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Council of the Borough of Islington (on 5th August.) to the Loudon
County Council, intimating their opinion that notification of chickenpox
had had "little or no result in bringing to light cases of smallpox,
and that, apart from this (its primary object), it is not only
useless, but the cause of unnecessary expense to the ratepayers."
The Islington Borough Council being of opinion that the order of the
County Council should be rescinded, requested the County Council to
take steps accordingly, and expressed the hope that the other Borough
Councils would see fit to take similar action. It is probable that the
County Council will not have cause to renew their order in November.
It may be mentioned that in Kensington, among cases notified as
chicken-pox, two persons were found to be suffering from small-pox,
and were removed to hospital; whilst the Medical Officer of Health of
another Borough reported, in July, that in the said Borough fifteen
cases notified as chicken-pox were found to be small-pox, and were
removed to hospital, and that these cases were responsible for
another twenty-five cases of small-pox; so that it is scarcely correct
to characterise the notification of chicken-pox as "useless."
3.—Deaths in Public Institutions. —Thirty-five deaths of
parishioners were registered at the Borough Infirmary, and 19 at
outlying public institutions, etc.
4. —Deaths op Non-Parishioners.—There were 48 deaths in
the Borough of persons who were not parishioners; viz., 7 at the
Brompton Consumption Hospital, 39 at the St. Marylebone Infirmary,
Notting-hill, one at St. Joseph's House, Notting-hill, and one at
the Jubilee Hospital. These cases are excluded from our statistics.
5. —Notifications of Infectious Disease in the Metropolis.—
I append (page 151) a summary of the cases of infectious disease
notified to the several Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health (and
by them reported to the Metropolitan Asylums Board, as the Act
directs), 4,143 in number; including small-pox, 73, scarlet fever,
1,412, diphtheria and membranous croup, 730, and enteric fever,
319. The cases notified in the three preceding four-weekly periods
were 7,108, 6,362, and 4,859, respectively.
The Kensington notifications, 90 in number, were localised as
follows:—
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