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44. The number of cases is thus seen to have only once
been exceeded since 1891, but the number of deaths is smaller
than any year since 1891, except 1898.
45. There were 2.80 cases per 1,000 population, compared
with 3.02 in London. The Plumstead rate was the lowest of
the sanitary districts south of the Thames.
The death rate per 1,000 population was 0.24, compared
with 0.43 in London.
The case death rate was 8.8 per cent., compared with 13.6
in 1898, which was then the lowest since notification began.
46. 133 cases were treated at Hospital, or about threefourths
of the whole number. There were 9 deaths at Hospital
and 7 at home, giving death rates per 100 cases of 6'7 at
Hospital and 14.0 at home. The case death rates of Hospital
treated cases have been in the past seven years—50, 35, 19,
26, 10, 13 6, and 6.7, and of home-treated cases—30, 32, 25,
33, 27, 13 6, and 14.0. These figures illustrate the advantage
of Hospital treatment since the introduction of Antitoxin.
47. Table V. shews that most of the cases were between
the ages of 1 and 13, but that a larger proportion were under
5 than was the case with Scarlet Fever.
As with Scarlet Fever, Ancona Eoad School was most
affected, and after it, Burrage Grove. Eighty-two cases, or
nearly one half, did not attend any school.
Of the Scarlet Fever cases, 192, or about a quarter did not
attend school. This shews that School influence is a less
important factor with Diphtheria than with Scarlet Fever,