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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, s. 55.
In accordance with the above Act, Medical Practitioners
have forwarded to me a gross total of 867
notification certificates ; three of these were cancelled
owing to inaccurate addresses and 88 (ten per cent.)
were duplicates, so that the actual number of cases of
infectious disease notified and dealt with was 779, a
rate of six per thousand on the estimated population of
the Borough. Table II. in the appendix indicates,
inter alia, the number of persons suffering from each
disease; it also shows the sub-district in which such
persons resided, and the number (485) of those removed
to hospital. In fourteen instances information was
received from one of the Medical Superintendents of
the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals to the
effect that the diagnosis as stated upon the notification
certificate was incorrect, a proportion of 1.8 per cent.
on the whole.
Table N sets out full particulars of all the notifications.