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DEATHS FROM NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
Whooping Cough.—Twenty-eight deaths were attributed to
whooping cough, or 16 more than the previous year; 327 children
were reported by school teachers as having whooping cough, whose
homes were visited by your inspectors and their parents advised
as to the precautions that should be taken.
In March, the London County Council as a case of emergency
and having regard to the occurrence of cases of Smallpox and to
the fact that mild forms of this disease are liable to be mistaken
for Chicken-pox, made an order requiring the notification of all
cases of Chicken-pox from 27th March, up to and including 30th
June, 1918.
During the year, 492 eases of Chicken-pox were notified, or
brought to the notice of your Public Health Department. In
every case the premises were visited by one of your Inspectors
and the parents advised as to the precautions necessary.
Diarrhoea.—Thirty-one deaths were registered from diarrhoea,
or 14 less than 1917. Of these 28 were of children under one
year of age.
Influenza.—Two hundred and ninety-one deaths were
attributed to influenza against 11 in 1917.
The following chart shows the period of the two waves of
Influenza, the first in July and the second in late October,
November and early December:—