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61, 584, 527, 480, 328, and 352 in the six preceding years.
The cases were 61 per 1000 population. In London there were
5.1 cases per 1000 population.
233 cases went to Hospital compared with 215 in 1896.
There were 6 deaths, 5 at Hospital and one at home, giving
death-rate of 2.1 at Hospital and 0 7 at home per 1000 cases.
These are far the lowest rates I have yet recorded.
In 1893 the rates were 4.0 at home and 8.0 in Hospital; in
1894, 3 3 at home and 4.8 in Hospital; in 1895, 3.0 at home
and at Hospital; and in 1896, 4 3 at home and 37 at
Hospital.
18. The number of deaths from Scarlet Fever is smaller
than in any year since 1891.
19. Table IV. gives the cases occurring in each of the eight
wards. These varied from 10.3 in the East ward, 8 3 in the
South, 5.3 in the South East, 4.9 in the North East and North
West, 4.1 in the North, and 3.7 in the South West to 2.8 in
the West.
20. Lee Street and Purrett Road Schools were most
affected, Plum Lane, Eglinton Road and Vicarage Road least
so. (See Table V.)
21. There were 51 cases in the first quarter, 55 in the
second, 60 in the third and 206 in the fourth. Thus more
than half the cases occurred in the fourth quarter.
22. There were 278 houses in which one case occurred, and
65 houses in which two or more cases occurred.