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20 SCARLET FEVER.

Ward VII.—Lancaster Gate, East.

The streets named in Harrow Road Ward always furnish a large proportion of the
cases of this disease. Special reference will be made later to the cases in Leith Mansions,
Burlington Mews West, and Woodfield Road.

(a) This "house" represents a group of 15 tenements, the cases occurring in 3 families.
(b) This "house" is the Workhouse Nursery, occupied by infants.
Of the cases reported, 9 were found to have been erroneously diagnosed, 27 were
apparently due to infection contracted outside the Borough, and 14 were "return cases."
The cases treated in hospitals numbered 378 (including the 0 "errors"), the removals constituting
01*3 per cent, of the notified cases, as compared with 82*4 in 1002' and 87'2 in 1901.
The largest proportion of cases removed was from Westbourne Ward (90 per cent, of the
notified cases) and the lowest from Lancaster Gate East Ward (50 per cent). (Table 18).
The nine deaths from scarlet fever represent a fatality of 2.5 per cent, of the cases
notified during the year, a slight increase over that for 1902 (2.2). The local fatality was
lower than that for the Metropolis as a whole (2.8). Of the 309 cases treated in hospital
8 died (fatality 2"1 per cent.) and of the 30 cases kept at home 1 died (fatality 2.7 per cent).
(Particulars for each Ward will be found in Table 18).
The deaths were 8 below the decennial average (17), a little more than one-third the
average (20), for the five vears 1893-97, and 1 in excess of that for the five years 1898-1902
(8). All the deceased persons were residents of St. Mary's Sub-District. The mean rates
for the Sub-Districts are appended:—