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SCARLET FEVER. —The total number of cases notified
during the year amounted to 923, compared with 617 in 1908.
Of this number, 792, or 85 per cent., were removed to
the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals. Subsequently 20
cases were returned to their homes and stated not to be suffering
from any notifiable disease. Deducting this number, a corrected
total of 903 is obtained, compared with (500 in 1908, equal to
an attack rate of 5.63 per 1,000 persons, compared with 3.77 in
1908. The attack rate for the County of London was 3.58 per
1,000.
An examination of the attack rates for the various Wards
of the Borough shows that the highest occurred in Lewisham
Park Ward (7.91 per 1,000) and that the Ward least affected
was Lewisham Village, with 2.54 per 1,000.
Nearly 44 per cent, of the cases occurred among
children between the ages of 5 and 10 years, and 25.5 per cent,
to children under the age of five.
Case Mortality. Sixteen deaths from Scarlet Fever
occurred to residents of the Borough, equal to 177 per cent, of
the cases notified, compared with 1.83 in the previous year.
DIPHTHERIA. -Three hundred and ninety cases of
Diphtheria were notified, compared with 472 in 1908, and of this
, number 311, or 79 percent., were removed to hospital. Twentyl|
nine patients (or 9.32 of the number removed) were returned as
not suffering, giving a corrected total of 361, a decrease of 97
on the number notified in 1908. The attack rate per 1,000
of the population amounted to 2.25, compared with 2.87. The
i rate for the County of London was 1.39 per 1,000.
Manor Ward, Lee suffered most from this disease, in
proportion to its population, having an attack rate of 2.88