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SCARLET FEYER.—The total number of cases notified
during the year amounted to 960, compared with (582 in 1913.
Of this number, 803, or 83.64 per cent., were removed to
the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals. Subsequently 15
cases were returned to their homes and stated not to be suffering
from any notifiable disease. Deducting this number, a corrected
total of 945 is obtained, compared with 676 in 1913, equal to
an attack rate of 5.58 per 1,000 persons, compared with 3.92 in
1913. The attack rate for the County of London was 5.54 per
1,000.
An examination of the attack rates for the various Wards
of the Borough shows that the highest occurred in Lewisham
Village (7.35 per 1,000) and that the Ward least affected
was South Ward, Lee, with 2.59 per 1,000.
48.46 per cent, of the cases occurred among children
between the ages of 5 and 10 years, and 18.52 per cent,
among children under the age of five.
Case Mortality.—Eight deaths from Scarlet Fever
occurred to residents in the Borough, equal to 0'84 per cent, of
the cases notified, compared with 0.74 in the previous year.
DIPHTHERIA. -F our hundred and twelve cases of
Diphtheria were notified, compared with 429 in 1913, and of this
number 363, or 88.1 per cent, were removed to hospital.
Twenty-four patients (or 6.28 per cent, of the number removed)
were returned as not suffering, giving a corrected total of
388, a decrease of 16 on the number notified in 1913. The
attack rate per 1,000 of the population amounted to 2.29,
compared with 234 in 1913. The rate for the County of
London was 2.02 per 1,000.
South Ward, Lee, suffered most from this disease, in
proportion to its population, having an attack rate of 5.34