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CASES OF ILLNESS REPORTED AS DUE TO
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
There were, omitting phthisis, 776 cases reported as
due to notifiable infectious diseases in this Borough
against 654 in the previous year. There were also 109
cases of phthisis voluntarily notified. There were also
reported 922 cases of infectious diseases that were not
notifiable, against 921 in the previous year, 219 of these
were chicken-pox, 417 measles, and 286 whooping cough.
SMALL-POX.
No case of small-pox was notified in the Borough
last year, against no case in the previous year.
CHICKEN-POX.
Two hundred and nineteen cases of chicken-pox
were reported, against 283 cases in the previous year.
The 219 cases reported last year were treated at the
homes of the patients. No death was registered.
MEASLES.
Four hundred and seventeen cases were reported as
due to measles, against 742 cases in the previous year.
Thirty deaths were registered. As this is not a notifiable
disease it is of no use my giving the mortality rate on
the cases reported, as no doubt only a proportion of the
cases which occurred were known of by me, but owing to
the stringent instructions of the Educational Department
of the London County Council most of the cases
occurring among pupils at the schools were reported to
me. A strict system of disinfection was carried out in
accordance with the provisions of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1901. The London County Council
having wisely declared the complaint to be a dangerous
infectious disease.