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DIPHTHERIA.
Registration
Sub-Districts.
No. of cases
Notified.
Cases treated
at Home.
Cases removed
to Hospital.
No. of
Deaths.
Case Mortality
per 100.
Rate of Persons
Notified
per 1,000
Inhabitants.
At
Home.
In
Hospital.
Waterloo Road 1st
64
27
37
5
10
23.4
4.5
Waterloo Road 2nd
34
15
19
1
3
11.8
2.4
Lambeth Church 1st
98
49
49
1
10
11.2
5.2
Lambeth Church 2nd
106
70
36
3
19
20.8
2.6
Kennington 1st
71
37
34
11
17
39.4
1.3
Kennington 2nd
139
97
42
7
7
10.1
3.1
Brixton
173
93
80
17
22
22.5
2.1
Norwood
19
3
16
3
2
2.6
0.6
Lambeth
704
391
313
48
90
19•6
2.3
During 1897 in Lambeth, 17 cases were notified from this
disease, and 7 deaths were registered, giving a case
mortality of 412, as compared with 27 cases notified, and
11 deaths during 1896. Two of the 17 Lambeth cases of
Membranous Croup were removed to Hospital.
In London, during 1897, there were registered 2261
deaths out of a total of 13199 cases of Diphtheria and
Membranous Croup notified, giving a mortality of 17.1 %
(uncorrected).
* In London Statistics, Diphtheria and Membranous Croup are now
grouped together by the Registrar-General.