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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, making no allowance for the increase in
population, 37 below the average number registered
in the last 10 years.
CASES OF ILLNESS REPORTED AS DUE
TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
There were, omitting tuberculosis, 1,267 cases
reported as due to notifiable infectious diseases in this
Borough against 818 in the previous year. The number
of cases of tuberculosis notified was 443, against 718
in the previous year. There were also reported 958
cases of infectious diseases that were not notifiable,
against 1,242 in the previous year; 235 of these were
chicken-pox, 491 measles, and 232 whooping cough.
SMALL-POX.
No case of small-pox was notified in the Borough
last year, against no case in the previous year.
CHICKEN-POX.
Two hundred and thirty-five cases of chicken-pox
were reported, against 171 cases in the previous year.
Two hundred and thirty-two cases were treated at the
homes of the patients, 1 at Hampstead Infirmary, 1 at
the West London Hospital, and 1 at the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital. No death was registered.
MEASLES.
Four hundred and ninety-one cases were reported
as due to measles, against 700 cases in the previous
year. Four hundred and seventy-two cases were treated
at the homes of the patients, 9 at the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospitals, and 10 at the Hammersmith
Infirmary. Forty-one deaths were registered. As this
is not a notifiable disease it is of no use giving the
mortality rate on the cases reported, as no doubt only
a proportion of the cases which occurred were known.