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Asylums Board, or to other Hospitals, and 1358, i.e., 51%
remained under treatment at their own homes. These
percentages are more satisfactory than during the last six
years, i.e., since the introduction of the Notification Act
and the tabulation of cases removed to Hospital. In 1891,
30.6% of the total zymotic cases notified were removed; in
1892,33.7%; in 1893,23%; in 1894, 33.9%; in 1895, 30.4%;
in 1896, 43%; whilst in 1897, the numbers removed form
49% of the total cases. During 1897, 50% smallpox cases,
65.8% scarlet fever, 36.2'/o typhoid, 44.5% diphtheria,
9.1% continued fever, and 11.8% membranous croup, were
removed to Hospital respectively.
Table L gives the averages of Notification Certificates
received in Lambeth since 1889, and it will be seen that
during 1897 the total number is practically the average—
the greatest number of Notifications being received in
1893—though the incidence per 1000 of the population
during 1897 is only .1 above the average incidence for
the seven years 1890-96 (i.e., since the introduction of the
Compulsory Notification Act).
The 18 cholera cases were probably cholera nostras
(English cholera), or infantile diarrhaea. The diphtheria
increase is a serious one—a total of 704 notifications being
received during the year 1897, i.e., 169 8 above the average
for the last seven years. The 704 cases occurred in 620
infected houses, and in only 18 5 per cent, of these were
the drains, on testing, found defective.
The enteric fever (or typhoid) notifications were below
the average, and represent only 185 infected houses, of
which 261% of the drains were shewn, on testing, to be
defective.