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B. Communicable Diseases.
(1) Compulsorily Notifiable Diseases.
The details respecting the 725 notifications of infectious disease
received by me are set out in the Local Government Board's Return
(Table XII), which also shows the number treated in hospital as well
as the number of deaths.
The number of cases of each disease notified in London since 1890
are shown in Tables XI and XIII, together with cases notified during the
same period in the different divisions which, with some modifications,
now form the City. These figures are exclusive of duplicate notifications. _
The chart on p. 39 indicates the number of notifications of scarlet
fever, diphtheria, enteric fever, and erysipelas in each week.
One hundred and sixty-one visits were paid in connection with
doubtful cases, contacts, children returning from fever hospitals, &c.
Five persons were notified by Port Sanitary Authorities as having
been in contact with or come from a port infected with cholera, 5 with
respect of plague, and 12 yellow fever.
Small-pox.—There were no notifications of this disease in Westminster.
Fifty-six persons were notified as having been in contact with
cases of small-pox elsewhere than in the City, and these were kept
under observation. Two persons suspected to be suffering from smallpox
were seen by me at the request of their medical attendants.
A gentleman living in the Borough of Hampstead, employed in
Westminster, developed small-pox on his return from Madeira, where
he was infected. He had been in contact with a number of persons for
a few days before the illness fully declared itself. -3rhese were kept
under observation, and most of them were re-vaccinated. Disinfection
was also carried out as far as practicable, and no other cases developed.
Vaccination.—The Vaccination Officers have supplied me with the
following particulars relating to vaccination of infants born in 1906:—