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CEREBRO-SPINAL FEVER.
(Epidemic Cerebo-spinal Meningitis.)
Notification of Cerebro-spinal Fever was made compulsory in
the Administrative County of London on March 12th, 1907, for a
period of six months. This order was further extended (August
27th) for a term of eighteen months from September 13th, 1907.
Notices of this order were posted in the Town Hall and other public
places in the borough. The number of cases notified in the County
of London during the year was 85, whilst in the Metropolitan
Borough of Deptford there were none.
DIARRHŒA.
The total number of deaths registered from the above disease
was 82, against 20, 146, and 84 for the three preceding years. Of
these 82 deaths, 79 were children under five years of age, 75 of these
being under one year of age.
Diarrhœa showed the greatest proportioned fatality in Finsbury,
Shoreditch, Bethnel Green, Stepney, Poplar, Southwark, and
Bermondsey.
The death-rate per 1,000 persons living was equal to 0.69. The
death-rate for the past eight years in Deptford and London are
shown in the following table:—
Year. Deptford. London.
1900 0.72 0.84
1901 0.94 0.86
1902 0.35 0.53
1903 0.64 0.64
1904 1.02 1.02
1905 0.73 0.72
1906 1.26 0.94
1907 0.18 0.32
Average for 0.73 0.73
years 1900-1907 0.73 0.73
1908 0.69 0.53
The rate of mortality for England and Wales was 0.50, for the
76 great towns 0.65, for the 142 smaller towns 0.52, and for London
as a whole 0.53.