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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The notifications of infectious diseases received during the year
numbered 1273, 596 being males and 677 females. The total number of
cases admitted to the London County Council's fever hospitals was 386.
Males
Females
Total
Admitted to
Hospitals.
Scarlet Fever 87 72 159 131
Diphtheria 11 13 24 24
Paratyphoid 1 1 1
Puerperal Fever 3 3 3
Puerperal Pyrexia 10 10 10
Cerebro-spinal Fever 3 1 4 4
Scabies 227 286 513
Measles 74 82 156 61
Whooping Cough 108 128 236 66
Malaria 5 - 5 2
Dysentery 13 15 28 28
Epidemic Diarrhoea 12 7 19 16
Pneumonia 40 35 75 22
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 3 8 11 2
Erysipelas 13 15 28 15
Polio-encephalitis - 1 1 1
Total 596 677 1273 386
There were 8 deaths from infectious diseases as follows:Cerebro-spinal
fever 1; Whooping Cough 5; Diphtheria l; Measles 1.
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION.
Immunisation against diphtheria was carried out in the Council's
Clinics and by general practitioners in accordance with the Council's
scheme for doctors. The total number of children who completed a
course of preventive injections during the year was 511 of whom 423
were under the age of 5 years.