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homes, requiring exclusion of these children from school until
the house was cleansed and disinfected to the satisfaction of
the Medical Officer of Health after recovery or removal of
the patient. Where cases were removed to hospital the usual
routine followed was fumigation, the removal of infected
bedding and clothing to the borough steam disinfector, and,
where necessary, the stripping and limewashing of the infected
house or parts thereof on the certificate of the Medical Officer
of Health.
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.
1912. Average for
previous 10 years.
Number of Cases 172 236
Number of Deaths 11 18
Death rate per 1,000 in Deptford
0.10 0.16
These two diseases are grouped together, as they are
symptomatic of each other, and the terms are regarded as
synonymous. This method is also adopted by the RegistrarGeneral,
and therefore allows of comparison. The total
number of notifications received were 177 relating to 172
cases. Of the number notified 7 were errors of diagnosis and
hospital cases, reducing the number of cases again to 165
compared with 152, 119, and 180 for the previous three years.
Eleven deaths were registered during the year as compared
with 15, 12, and 16 for the three previous years.
The rate of mortality was 0.10 per 1,000, and for the
three previous years 0.14, 0.10, and 0.13 respectively.
The death rate for England and Wales was 0.11, for the 95
great towns 0.13, for the 136 smaller towns 0.10 and for the
County of London 0.l0.
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