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Scarlet Fever. This disease occasioned 8 deaths, 3 being
under and 5 over five years of age; there were 9 in East
Greenwich, 5 in West Greenwich, and 3 each in St. Nicholas and
Charlton. Six such deaths occurred in 1908 and 10 in 1907.
Diphtheria. There were 7 deaths from this disease during
1909. This gives a death rate for Diphtheria of 0.06, comparing
with 0.16, the rate for 1908. Eighteen deaths occurred in 1908,
which were attributed to this cause, and 20, 30 and 15 in the
three preceding years.
Five of the patients were under five years of age, all of
them dying in the Brook Hospital, and 2 of the patients were
over five years of age, and these died in the Brook Hospital.
There was a further number of 29 deaths from Diphtheria in
patients not ordinarily resident in this Borough, but under treatment
at the Brook Hospital.
Twenty.four tubes of Diphtheria Anti.toxin, containing a
total of 96,000 units of serum, for the treatment of patients
suffering from this disease, have been supplied by this Council
during the year.
Whooping Cough. This disease was given as the cause of
20 deaths in 1909, as against 31, 26 and 41 in the three preceding
years. These deaths equal a rate of 0.18 per 1,000. There
were no patients over five years of age. Nine of the deaths
occurred in East Greenwich, 5 in West Greenwich, 3 in St.
Nicholas, and 3 in Charlton.
Typhoid Fever. There were three deaths ascribed as due
to this disease; there were 9 in 1908 and 5 each in 1907, 1906
and 1905, and 8 in 1904. One of the deaths was in East