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Outer Districts. In 1906, there were 1268 cases notified and 28
deaths registered, i.e., a case-mortality of 2.2 per cent.—3.1 for
the Inner, and 1.8 for the .Outer Districts. The annual averages
for 10 years (1891.1900) in the old Parish of Lambeth are (1)
notified cases 133T3, and (2) deaths 53.6.
Of the 1481 persons notified in the Borough of Lambeth during
1907, 1357* (i.e., 91.7 per cent.) were removed to Hospital, and of
these, 36 died (i.e., 2.6 per cent.), whereas 124 (i.e., 8.3 per
cent.) were treated at home, and of these, 2 died (i.e., l.6 per
cent.). This difference in case-mortality as between Hospital. and
Home-treated patients is to be explained by the greater
severity of the cases sent to Hospital.
The attack-rate and death-rate of Scarlet Fever per 1000 of the
population have been steadily decreasing during the last few
years in Lambeth Parish, and are below the average during 1907
in the Borough—a satisfactory condition of things, which seems
to point to the value of isolation (following notification) as an
important preventive measure in this disease.
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*Of the 1481 cases of Scarlet Fever removed to Hospital, 113 proved at
Hospital not to be suffering from that disease.