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B. Communicable Diseases.
(1) Compulsorily Notifiable Diseases.
The details respecting the 946 notifications of infectious disease
received by me are set out in the Local Government Board's Return
(Table XV), which also shows the number treated in hospital as well
as the number of deaths. It should be noted that there were 53 weeks
reckoned as forming the year 1908.
The number of cases of each disease notified in London since 1890
are shown in Table XIV, 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. There was
a diminution under each heading in London as a whole.
Three hundred and sixty-seven visits were paid in connection with
doubtful cases, contacts, children returning from fever hospitals, &c.
Small-pox.—One child was notified to be suffering, but fortunately
it turned out to be a severe attack of chicken-pox.
Two hundred and fifteen persons were notified as having been in
contact with cases of small-pox elsewhere than in the City, and these
were kept under observation. Four persons suspected to be suffering from
small-pox were seen by me at the request of their medical attendants.
Vaccination.—The Vaccination Officers have supplied me with the
following particulars relating to vaccination of infants born in 1907:—

The following is a summary of the total primary vaccinations
performed in the City during the years 1901-08, and of re-vaccinations,
in so far as these were made by the Public Vaccinators:—