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Of the 590 cases notified in the present year, as many as 583
were removed to hospital, i.e., 98.8 per cent. as against 97.5 per cent. for
last year.
The deaths in the 583 cases sent to hospital numbered 13, a
mortality of 2.2 per cent. as against 3.0 per cent for last year.
In the 7 cases treated at home, there was one death, a mortality of
14 .3 per cent.
It is our practice to spray the room well with formalin and to strip
the paper off the walls in the process of disinfection after Scarlet Fever.
In the event of the room being verminous it is afterwards fumigated with
sulphur.
DIPHTHERIA.
There has been a small amount of this disease occurring in the
Borough during the year under consideration. The fouling of the sub.soil
in the low.lying parts, by sewage, after heavy storms, has not been so
much as in former years, yet many cases have been reported where
extensive flooding of basements has taken place. Matters are improving
in this respect, and I feel sure that, when this fouling of the sub.soil has
been reduced to a minimum by the provision of more sewers, Diphtheria
in Southwark will be very little seen. No outbreak of any importance
has occurred which needs mentioning.