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104
1905]
SCARLET FEVER.
This disease was notified in 1,198 instances, or in 214 less than the
corrected average of the preceding 10 years.
With the exception of the returns for 1903 and 1904 the present is the
lowest hitherto recorded. The cases were equal to an attack-rate of 3.49, as
compared with a mean attack-rate for 10 years of 4.12 It is also slightly less
than the rate in the County of London, which was 4.17 per 1,000, and also
less than that of the Encircling Boroughs, where the rate was 4.38 per 1,000.
Hospital Isolation.—All the cases with the exception of 128, viz. 1,070,
were removed to Hospital. These represent 89.3 per cent, of the notifications.
Fatality.—37 cases, or 3 per cent, died, and of these 36, or 3.3 per cent,
occurred in hospitals, while out of 128 cases treated at home only 1, or 07
per cent., were fatal.