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them recovered. The case fatality on the whole
number treated in hospital was 2.7 per cent., as against
2.6 amongst all the cases treated in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Eastern Hospital. Twelve of the
patients removed to hospital were found not to be
suffering from Scarlet Fever, and are, therefore,
excluded from this calculation. Three of the fatal
cases were amongst young children aged less than five
years, and the others were under 14. The Scarlet
Fever death rate in this Borough is equal to 0.04
per thousand, which is identical with that of London.
One hundred and thirty-two of the cases were reported
from the North-East Sub-district and 110 from the
South-West. The Inspectors report that the homes of
144 were in a fairly satisfactory condition, but in 17
instances the W.C., or the apparatus connected therewith
were found to be defective; the drains were found
to be leaky in 14 instances, and minor insanitary
defects were noted in 99. Eleven persons were
removed from single room tenements, one of which was
overcrowded.
DIPHTHERIA.
Deaths 24. (Decennial Average 31).
Diphtheria was notified in 208 cases and Membranous
Croup in three others, eight of the certificates
being duplicates. One hundred and ninety-seven of
the cases certified as Diphtheria and all the Croup
cases were removed, 177 of them to the Metropolitan
Board Hospitals, and 15, mostly requiring immediate
operation, were treated at other hospitals. Five cases
remained at home, where one of them died. In six