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It will be seen from the preceding table that the
total number of deaths from these zymotic diseases last
year was 30 below the average number registered in
the last 10 years.
CASES OF ILLNESS REPORTED AS DUE
TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
There were, omitting tuberculosis, 869 cases (including
138 cases of chicken-pox) reported as due to
notifiable infectious diseases in this Borough against
1,267 in the previous year. The number of cases of
tuberculosis notified was 433, against 443 in the
previous year. There were also reported 1,077 cases
of infectious diseases that were not notifiable, against
958 in the previous year; 231 of these were chickenpox,
619 measles, and 227 whooping cough.
There were also reported 208 military cases of
infectious diseases.
SMALL-POX.
No case of small-pox was notified in the Borough
last year, against no case in the previous year.
CHICKEN-POX.
Three hundred and sixty-nine cases of chicken-pox
were reported, against 235 cases in the previous year.
Three hundred and sixty-four cases were treated at
the homes of the patients, 1 at Hammersmith Infirmary,
1 at Westminster Infirmary, and 3 at Kensington
Infirmary. No death was registered. One military
case was reported and removed to Isolation Hospital.
On the 9th day of March the London County
Council made an order as a case of emergency, having
regard to the occurrence of cases of small-pox and
to the fact that mild forms of this disease were liable
to be mistaken for chicken-pox, with respect to the
notification of chicken-pox. The order, which was