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Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above Table.
Small-Pox.—The Metropolis was visited by a sharp outbreak of this disease during
the latter period of the year, 70 cases being notified in the County of London. Poplar was
the Borough principally affected, 51 cases being notified in that district. The remaining cases were
distributed as follows:—
Stepney 5 St. Pancras 1
Fulham 2 Bethnal Green 1
Bermondsey 2 Holborn 1
Shoreditch 2 Lambeth 1
South wark 2 Deptford 1
Finsbury 1
I am pleased to state that no case occurred in this Borough. Two suspicious cases were
removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospital for observation, but both were found not to
be suffering from the disease. In one case the patient was removed to another hospital as she was
found to be suffering from measles. In the other the patient returned home and was then admitted
to the St. Mary Abbot's Hospital, where he died. Owing to the difference of opinion amongst
medical experts as to the disease from which the patient had been suffering, the Coroner decided to
hold an inquest, and came to the conclusion that he died from septicaemia and gastro-enteritis.
Scarlet Fever.—The epidemic of scarlet fever which visited London in 1920 and 1921, and
which was the largest known in the history of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, disappeared in
the first month of the year under review. During the course of 1922 there were 471 cases notified
in Kensington. The number of notifications in the three previous vears were 260. 617 and 870.

Cases of mistaken diagnosis are not excluded lrom the above Table.