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INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Under the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
and the Tuberculosis Regulations, 1,579 cases of infectious diseases
were notified, as compared with 1,635 in 1922. In the Table will be
found a list of cases notified and their distribution in the several
Wards.
To the seven principal epidemic diseases, viz.:— Small-pox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Enteric Fever
and Infantile Diarrhoea, 75 deaths were ascribed, and the death-rate
was 0 • 65 per 1,000 as against 1.38 in the preceding year. A preceding
table indicates the number of deaths and the death-rates from these
diseases during the past ten years.
Small-Pox.
No cases of Small-Pox were notified during the year.
Scarlet Fever.
349 persons were notified as suffering from this disease during the
year under report as compared with a total of 547 for the previous year.
Included in this total are 16 patients who, after removal to hospital,
were certified to be not suffering from the disease in question.
There were 2 deaths as compared with 39, 13 and 2 in the three
preceding years.
Diphtheria.
The total number of patients certified to be suffering from Diphtheria
was 417 as compared with a total of 459 for the previous year. Of
this number 18 were errors of diagnosis
There were 33 deaths as compared with 11, 13 and 21 for the three
preceding years.
Enteric Fever.
Ten cases of Enteric Fever were notified, as compared with
7 in the previous year. Included in this total is one patient who, after
removal to hospital, was certified to be not suffering from the disease.
There were two deaths.
Acute Primary Pneumonia and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
These diseases are compulsorily notifiable under the Public Health
(Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery, etc., Regulations), 1918.
74 cases were notified during the year.