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dealing with all discharged Lambethian patients, who had been
treated for Scarlet Fever (as well as for Diphtheria, etc.) in the.
Hospitals. In no single instance was any cause for complaint
found—the Lambeth experience being that the Metropolitan
Asylums Board take every precaution to minimise, as far as
possible, the numbers of these so-called "return cases" (vide
Special Report in the Appendix, pp. 43.4). In view of this fact,
the Lambeth Borough Council decided on April 28th, 1904, not
to support the Borough of Poplar in their letter of complaint
(dated March 17th, 1904) of alleged mal-administration by the
Metropolitan Asylums Board in prematurely discharging a
Scarlet Fever patient, thereby causing a spread of the disease to
others.
MEASLES AND WHOOPING COUGH.
These two non-notifiable infectious diseases cause more deaths
than all the notifiable infectious diseases together. In the
Borough of Lambeth, during 1904, 164 and 109 deaths were
registered from Measles and Whooping Cough, giving death-rates
per 10,000 of the population of 5.3 and 3.5 respectively. In
London, during 1904, there were registered 2,261 and 1,507 total
deaths from Measles and Whooping Cough, giving corresponding
death-rates of 4.9 and 3.1 per 10,000 of the population
respectively.
Taking the Lambeth Registration Sub-Districts, it will be seen
that Waterloo and Lambeth Church First suffered most, and
Brixton and Norwood least, from Measles ; whilst Lambeth
Church First and Second suffered most, and Kennington Second
and Norwood least, from Whooping Cough (vide pages 68,100-1).
The Inner Districts suffered (deaths per 10,000 of the population)
twice and thrice as much respectively as the Outer
Districts, thus :—
Inner. Outer.
Whooping Cough 5.5 2.8
Measles 10.1 3.4