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II.-NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
In Table 111. of Appendix will be found particulars of infectious
diseases notified during the year under report.
The number of cases notified, exclusive of notifications of
tuberculosis, which numbered 544, was 950, compared with 1,193
in 1913 and 896 in 1912. All the diseases show a decrease on the
number for the previous year, with the exception of erysipelas and
cerebro-spinal meningitis,; the former is the same as last year and
the latter shows an increase of 2. The number of cases notified
in the registration sub-districts was 641 in Bermondsey, against
800 in 1913, 261 in Rotherhithe, against 339, and 48 in St. Olave,
against 54 in 1913.
The attack-rate per thousand inhabitants was 7·6, the rate
for the sub-districts being 7·8 for Bermondsey, 7·7 for Rotherhithe,
and 5·8 for St. Olave. The corresponding rates in the previous
year were 9·6 for the Borough, 9·8 for Bermondsey, 9·8 for Rotherhithe,
and 6·2 for St. Olave.
44 cases were returned from hospital as not suffering from the
disease for which they were notified, but if allowance is made for
mild unreported cases, the recorded notifications would, if anything,
understate the actual number of cases.
Small-pox.
No cases were notified during the year under report.
Typhus Fever.
No cases of typhus fever were notified daring the year under
report.
Diphtheria.
There were 214 cases of diphtheria notified in 1914, of which
138 occurred in Bermondsey, 67 in Rotherhithe, and 9 in St.
Olave. This is a decrease on 1913, for which the figures were:—
Borough, 245 ; Bermondsey, 164 ; Rotherhithe, 68 ; and St. Olave,
13. From the following table it will be seen that an increase has
taken place throughout London.