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Of the 1,470 cases notified in the present year, as many as 1,148
were removed to hospital, i.e., 97.1 per cent.
The deaths in the 1,440 cases sent to hospital were 45, a mortality
of 3.2 per cent.
In the 42 cases treated at home there was no death.
It is our practice in all cases to strip the paper off the walls in the
process of disinfection of rooms after Scarlet Fever.
The Wards most affected were St. John's, St. George's, All Saints'
and St. Michael's in the order named.
DIPHTHERIA.
The disease which reached its lowest point in 1904 has since then
steadily increased. The periodic flooding of the basements with sewage
in the low lying parts of the Borough on the occurrence of every heavy
rain must act very prejudicially on the health of children exposed to such
conditions. The contamination with sewage of so much of our subsoil
from the cause referred to, must prepare the children for infection from
diphtheria. Southwark with its splendid sandy subsoil if it were not for
this flooding, would, in my opinion, have little of this complaint to
record.
Although the number of cases has increased this year, the mortality
rate has diminished by one half.
The deaths numbered 31 as against 44 for the year 1905.
The total number of cases notified, including Membranous Croup,
was 401, and 304 for the preceding year.
The percentage of deaths to the total number of cases notified
was 7.0.
The annual mortality per 1,000 living was 0.15.