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28 SEPTIC DISEASES.
Similar rates, but not corrected as above, are given below for the Adjacent Districts,
&c., during the past five years:—

Partly from Reports of Registrar-General, and partly from information kindly supplied by the
Medical Officers of Health.
Other Septic Diseases.
Erysipelas.—This is the only variety scheduled for notification. The cases reported
during the year numbered 136, 19 more than the total for 1904. In the Metropolis the cases
numbered 4,975, 21 in excess of the previous year's total. The total for the Borough was
7 less than the decennial average (143), that for the Metropolis 526 less than the average
(5,501). Last year's morbidity rates were 0.92 in the Borough and 1.06 in the Metropolis.
In St. Mary's Sub-District 102 cases were reported, the decennial average being 110; in
St. John's, 16, average 17 ; and in North-West Paddington 18, average 16.
Multiple cases occurred in two houses, in one the husband being infected by his wife,
and in the other the second case occurred (in a different family) nine months after the first.
Eighteen of the cases were treated in hospital or workhouse infirmary.
The deaths during the year from erysipelas numbered 7, giving a mortality equal to
0.04 per 1,000 persons, and a fatality of 5.1 per 100 cases notified. In the Metropolis the
mortality was 0.05 and the fatality 4.5.
The deaths in the Borough from the remaining forms of septic disease numbered 10, one
more than in 1904, and included 2 each from "stomatitis," "pyaemia," and "infective
endocarditis," and one each from "cellulitis," "carbuncle," "angina ludovici" and "septic
laryngitis."
The mortality from all diseases scheduled as "other septic diseases" was 0.11, the
decennial mean rate being 0.10. Full comparison is made below:—