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CASES OF ILLNESS REPORTED AS DUE TO
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
There were, omitting phthisis, 882 cases reported
as due to notifiable infectious diseases in this Borough
against 776 in the previous year. The number of
cases of phthisis voluntarily notified was 105.
There were also reported 751 cases of infectious
diseases that were not notifiable, against 922 in the
previous year, 68 of these were chicken-pox, 627
measles, and 56 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.
Sixty eight cases of chicken-pox were reported,
against 219 cases in the previous year. The 68 cases
reported last year were treated at the homes of the
patients. No death was registered.
MEASLES.
Six Hundred and Twentv Seven cases were
reported as due to measles, against 417 cases in the
previous year. Fifty six 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. Owing to the stringent
instructions of the Educational Department of the
London County Council most of the cases occurring
among pupils at the schools of the London County
Council 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 disinfection of premises and fomites after cases of
measles threw a large amount of extra work upon the