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1905]
THE NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Small Pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Membranous Croup, Entric (or Typhoid)
Fever, Erysipelas, Puerperal Fever, Continued Fever, Relapsing Fever, Cholera.
The number of cases notified during the year was 1,928, which is with one
exception the smallest return recorded since the notification of the above mentioned
diseases under the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act
became compulsory.
It is 806 below the corrected average of the prec ding 10 years, and as it
shows a decrease from each disease, with the exception of Puerperal Fever,
which stood at its average (24), the record must be considered very satisfactory.
It is all the more satisfactory because of the large decrease in the
cases of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria, the notifications from the former
falling from an average of 1,412 to 1,198, and from the latter from 687
to 351. Indeed the return from Enteric Fever is not less remarkable,
because the return shows that there has been a decrease from 235 to 100.
In 1903 the return was very exceptional, only 1,707 cases having been
reported, the decrease being due to the abnormally small return from Scarlet
Fever.
The 1,928 notifications represent an attack rate of 5.62 per 1,000 of the
population, as against a rate of 7.00 for the County of London, and of
7.16 for the Encircling Boroughs, the returns for which are as follows :—
Attack-Rates.
St. Pancras 6.69 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Stoke Newington 5.62 „ „
Hackney 8.44 „ „
Hornsey 1.57 „ „
Finsbury 7.58 „ „
Shoreditch 9.97 „ ,,
The Encircling Boroughs 7.16 ,, „
County of London 7.00 „ „
Islington 5.62 „ „