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SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
During 1918 there were 2,994 cases of acute infectious disease
notified in the Borough; of these 34 were subsequently found not
to be suffering from infectious disease, thus reducing the number
of genuine cases to 2,960. The attack rate in respect of the acute
notifiable infectious diseases for the year is 15.1 per 1,000 living.
The deaths from the chief zymotic diseases numbered 213.
This is equivalent to a zymotic death rate of 108 per 1,000 living
in the Borough.
A.—NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE (ACUTE).
Small.pox.—Three cases of this disease were notified in the
Borough during 1918.
The first case, Hy. W., aged 33 years, residing in Dalston,
was removed to hospital on 5th March. This patient was an
undertaker and had arranged the burial some three weeks previously
of a child who died from "measles," at an address in Bethnal
Green. On the 13th March, Ethel W., aged 25 years, the wife of
the first case, developed a rash, which was diagnosed as small.pox
and she was removed to hospital the same day. The next day,
14th March, Ethel W., aged six years, daughter of the previous
cases, was found to have a suspicious rash and was accordingly
removed to hospital.
Disinfection of rooms, clothing and all infected articles was
carried out in each case, and observation kept upon the contacts;
all the patients had been vaccinated primarily, and re.vaccination
was performed in the two latter cases immediately upon the removal
of the first one.
All the cases subsequently recovered.