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27
DEATHS FROM NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
Under Section 55 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, sixteen diseases are now compulsorily
notifiable, the list having been increased by the
inclusion of an obscure disease of the nervous system
known (according as it affects either the brain or the
spinal cord) as Polio-Myelitis or Polio-Encephalitis.
The total zymotic deaths numbered 49 against 51 in
1911, a decrease of two. As these diseases are all of a
very serious nature the majority of the sufferers require
hospital treatment, so that most of those who fail to
recover die away from home. The following table
includes Measles and Whooping Cough, cases of which
are now admitted to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's
hospitals under certain conditions, although the diseases
are not notifiable. Table K shows the deaths at home
and in hospital from the diseases named in the margin.
No death was recorded from Small-pox, Cholera,
Typhus Fever, Relapsing Fever, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, Plague, Glanders, Anthrax, Hydrophobia.