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SCARLET FEYER.—The total number of cases notified
during the year amounted to 481, compared with 960 in 1914.
Of this number, 376, or 80 per cent., were removed to
the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals. Subsequently 11
cases were returned to their homes and stated not to be suffering
from any notifiable disease. Deducting this number, a corrected
total of 470 is obtained, compared with 945 in 1914, equal to
an attack rate of 2.85 per 1,000 persons, compared with 5.58 in
1914. The attack rate for the County of London was 3.75 per
1,000.
An examination of the attack rates for the various Wards
of the Borough shows that the highest occurred in Sydenham
Ward (4.79 per 1,000) and that the Ward least affected
was Manor Ward, Lee, with 0.86 per 1,000.
45.31 per cent. of the cases occurred among children
between the ages of 5 and 10 years, and 18.29 per cent.
among children under the age of five.
Case Mortality.—Five deaths from Scarlet Fever
occurred to residents in the Borough, equal to 1.06 per cent. of
the cases notified, compared with 0.84 in the previous year.
DIPHTHERIA.—Two hundred and sixty-one cases of
Diphtheria were notified, compared with 412 in 1914, and of this
number 212, or 81.22 per cent. were removed to hospital.
Eleven patients (or 5.18 per cent. of the number removed) were
returned as not suffering, giving a corrected total of 250,
a decrease of 138 on the number notified in 1914. The attack
rate per 1,000 of the population amounted to 1.52, compared
with 2.29 in 1914. The rate for the County of London
was 2.01 per 1,000.
Sydenham suffered most from this disease, in proportion
to its population, having an attack rate of 2.17 per 1,000.
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