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Five of the fatal cases were amongst young children
aged less than five years and the other four were under
fourteen. Our scarlet fever death rate is equal to 0.07
per thousand population, whilst that of London is 0.04,
134 of the cases were reported from the North-East subdistrict
and 102 from the South-West. The Inspectors
report that the homes of 133 of the patients were in a
fairly satisfactory condition, but in ten instances the
W.C., or the apparatus connected therewith, was found
to be defective. The drainage was leaky in eight
instances, and minor insanitary defects were noted in
sixty-six. Sixteen persons were removed from single
room tenements, two of which were overcrowded.
DIPHTHERIA.
Deaths 20. (Decennial average 35).
Diphtheria was notified in 179 cases, and eight children
were certified to be suffering from Membranous
Croup, a total of 187; of these 158 were removed to
Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals, and fifteen
others, most of them requiring immediate operation, were
treated in other hospitals. Five cases remained at home,
where two of them died. So far as I can ascertain, these
two did not receive the benefit of anti-toxin injection;
the other three were very mild cases, and call for no
special remark.
In thirty-two instances a notification was received
from the Metropolitan Board Hospital Superintendents
to the effect that the diagnosis, as stated on the
certificate, was incorrect. Of the 166 true cases of