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[1908
Fatality from the Infectious Diseases.—By fatality is meant the
percentage of deaths among the notified cases of the infectious diseases.
During the year 12.6 cases occurred among the 2,289 reported cases, so
that the fatality was 5.5 per cent. This is a somewhat higher ratio than that
reported in 1907, when it was 4.8 per cent., which was the lowest that had
occurred since 1891. The fatality now reported is, however, satisfactory, and
indeed, has only been better on two occasions, viz., in 1906 and 1907.
As the fatality among each of the several diseases will be discussed under
its proper heading, it is unnecessary to do so here. Tt is sufficient to give the
return for the last 18 years.
Years. Cases. Deaths. Fatality.
1891 2,059 258 12.5
1892 3,318 291 8.7
1893 4,858 383 7.9
1894 3,121 339 10.8
1895 2,839 266 9.3
1896 3,824 390 10.2
1897 2,906 258 8.8
1898 2,418 173 7.1
1899 2,243 238 8.1
1900 2,276 202 8.8
1901 3,167 268 8.4
1903 1,707 108 6.3
1904 1,941 119 6.1
1905 1,928 107 5.5
1906 2,275 115 5.0
1907 2,063 100 4.8
1908 2,289 126 5.5
Total 48,779 3,991 8.2
Hospital Isolation.—Out of the '2,289 cases of the notifiable
infectious diseases, 1842, or 80.4 per cent., were isolated in hospitals, and of
this number 1,734 had been removed to the institutions of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board.
SMALL POX.
No case was notified during the year, nor, indeed, has any occurred since
1906, when 1 was reported.
The known cases of this disease in the borough since 1891 have been as
follows:—276 in the quinquennium 1891-1895; 58 in that of 1896-1900, and
355 in 1901-1905. The particulars for each year are given in Table K in
the Appendix.