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B Communicable Diseases.
The details respecting the notifications of infectious disease
received by me are set out in the Local Government Board's Return
(Table VIII), 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 Table IX, 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.
In London, as a whole, the number of cases of scarlet fever and
puerperal fever was above the number notified in the previous year,
while smallpox, diphtheria, erysipelas and typhoid fever were below.
In Westminster diphtheria, puerperal fever and erysipelas cases were
more numerous, but the cases of scarlet fever and typhoid fever were
below the average. A number of doubtful cases, contacts, and certain
patients returning from fever hospitals, &c., were visited during the
year.
There were no cases of smallpox notified in Westminster, but 67
notifications were received of persons coming to Westminster from
infected places or off ships on which cases had occurred.
Vaccination.—The Vaccination Officers have supplied me with the
following particulars relating to vaccination of infants born in 1911