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dealt with was 960, a rate of 7.3 per thousand on the
estimated population. Table III in the appendix
indicates the number of persons suffering from each
disease; it also shews the sub-district in which such
persons resided, and the number (732) of those removed
to hospital.
In the early part of March the London County
Council made an order with reference to cerebrospinal
fever further extending the period during which
this disease is notifiable from the 13th of March, 1909,
to the corresponding date in 1910. This disease has
now been notifiable since March, 1907. On April
20th the London County Council issued another
order, duly approved by the Local Government Board,
applying the notification clauses of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, to the diseases:—Glanders,
Hydrophobia and Anthrax in man.
In fourty-four instances information was received
from one of the Medical Superintendents of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals, to the effect
that the diagnosis as stated on the notification certificate
was incorrect, a proportion of six per cent. on the
whole. This figure of error is about the average for
all the Metropolitan Boroughs.
Table O gives full details of all the notifications.