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OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 33
and equal to that for Willesden. The rates recorded in all the other districts were below that of
the Borough. The mortality rates for the Wards are given in Table 23.
Average,
1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. 1911. 1907-11. 1912.
Deaths 50 11 36 35 45 35 21
Mortality 0.35 0.07 0.25 0.24 0.31 0.24 015
Hospital Accommodation.—Under Orders of the Local Government Board, made in 1910 and
1911, cases of measles and whooping cough are now admitted to the Hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, either through the Poor Law or through the Public Health Department. The
latter class of case (the non-pauper) can only be received so long as there is a surplusage of
accommodation above that required for Poor Law patients, and the Medical Officer of Health
has to recommend each case for admission. Under the terms of the 1911 Order, the Asylums
Board require to be furnished with certain particulars in addition to that usually supplied
for other diseases, and a special " Application for Admission Form " has been prescribed.
During the past year 74 patients suffering from measles and 32 from whooping cough
were admitted to the Boards Hospitals. Those figures were equivalent to 5.4 per of
the known cases of measles and 85 of whooping cough. In 1911 the proportions were 54
and 44 respectively. The deaths in the Boards Hospitals during the year from measles
numbered 2, and from whooping cough 6. In 1911 the deaths in those institutions were 9
and 4 respectively. The fatalities among patients treated at home and in the Hospitals
during the two years are compared in the tabulation given below, but it should be noted
that the figures on which the Hospital rates were based are small, the "probable errors,"
therefore, being possibly large. Moreover, the patients admitted to Hospital were in many
cases seriously ill when removed and most of them drawn from unsatisfactory homes.
Fatalities per 100 attacks.
Measles. Whooping Cough.
Patients treated 1911. 1912. 1911. 1912.
at Home 3.3 2.3 6.7 4.2
in Hospital 12.8 2.7 14.2 21.4
OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
In addition to the diseases already mentioned, the staffs of the public elementary schools
regularly report cases of chickenpox, mumps, and ringworm, the returns of which are systematically
tabulated each week in the Department, as well as of "blight" (ophthalmia), skin diseases,
&c., which are not so tabulated. Certain of these cases will be dealt with in detail under School
attendance, but the actual numbers of cases reported during the year should be recorded at
this stage. There were no fatal cases.
Chickenpox.—There was no notification of the disease during the year, there having been no
prevalence of smallpox. The cases reported by the school teachers during the year numbered
469 (see over), or, after correction, 459, as compared with 494 (corrected total) in 1911. The
corrected numbers reported from the different Wards during the last two years are given below.
Chickenpox.
Queens Harrow Maida Lancaster Gate, Hyde
Park. Road. Vale. Westbourne. Church. West. East. Park.
1912 53 128 61 62 105 14 6 30
1911 106 128 84 52 85 21 9 9
Mumps.—The 341 cases reported last year show a considerable increase above the number
reported in 1911 (223). The disease was most prevalent during the first quarter of the year.
Ringworm.—The cases reported during the year (267) were considerably in excess of the
number reported in any year since 1909.
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