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Typhus Fever.—Nil return. During ten years only one death has been
registered in the first quarter, namely in 1895.
Enteric Fever caused 7 deaths, or one less than the average (8) for the
ten preceding first quarters, and produced a death-rate of 0.08.
Diarrhœal Diseases.—These led to 10 deaths, which were 4 above the
corrected average (6), and the death-rate was 0.12 per 1,000.
Continued Fever.—Only one death was ascribed to this disease.
OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES.—Influenza returned only 30
deaths, compared with a corrected average of 51, the resulting death-rate
being 0.35, as against a mean rate of 0.59.
Puerperal Fever.—3 deaths were registered, or one above the average
(2). This death-rate was in the proportion of 1.32 per 1,000 children born, as
against 079 per 1,000 births in the preceding ten first quarters.
Erysipelas.—Only 2 deaths were recorded, as against 4 in the corresponding
quarter of last year.
THE NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
These diseases comprise Small Pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Membranous
Croup, Enteric Fever, Typhus Fever, Continued Fever, Erysipelas and Puerperal
Fever.
The total number of cases notified was 437, which produced an annual
attack-rate of 5.15 per 1,000 inhabitants. They show a decrease of 209 on the
average (646) which obtained in the first quarters of the preceding ten years.
This was due to a decrease, on the average of ten years, of 109 cases of Scarlet
Fever, 36 cases of Diphtheria, 22 cases of Enteric Fever, and 21 cases of
Erysipelas.
In London the attack-rate was 6.15 per 1,000, or 1.00 higher than in
Islington, while in the Encircling Boroughs it was 6.21, or 1.06 higher than
here.
Small Pox.—No case was known in the borough during the quarter, as
compared with 121 cases in the corresponding quarter of last year, whilst the
average for the previous ten (first quarters) was 19.
Scarlet Fever, of which 199 cases were notified, showed a decrease of
109 on the corrected average (308) of the first quarters 1893-1902. The
attack-rate was equal to 2.35 per 1,000 inhabitants annually, which is a