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cough 1,389. The yearly averages of notification certificates
received during the two decennia 1891.1900 (Parish) and 1901-1910
(Borough) are respectively 2,658.4 and 1,912.5. Of the total 4,066
cases notified during 1914, 2,315, i.e., 56.9 per cent., were removed
to the Hospitals of the Asylums Board or to other Hospitals, and
1,751. i.e., 431 per cent., remained under treatment at their homes.
If the newly.notifiable diseases, cerebro.spinal fever, poliomyelitis
acuta, ophthalmia neonatorum and whooping cough be
excluded, the percentage of cases removed to Hospital for isolation
and treatment during 1914 was 86.5—a good average when compared
with the following last 4 quinquennial averages (also exclusive
of the special diseases mentioned above), i.e., since the compulsory
notification of infectious diseases came into force under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891 1891-5, 31 5; 1896-1900, 54.7;
1901-1905, 67.9; and 1906.10, 82.8.
Taking the total number of notified cases (4,066) of infectious
diseases, the zymotic incidence* throughout the Borough for 1914 is
13.7 per 1,000 population (15.7 Inner and 9.7 Outer Districts), as
compared with two decennial averages 1901.1910 (Borough) and
1891-1900 (Parish) of 6.1 and 9.04 respectively. During 1914 the
highest incidence rate is 19.4 (Bishop's), and the lowest 6'8 (Brixton).
Further, excluding the ophthalmia neonatorum and whooping
cough cases, in connection with which no systematic sanitary examination
was made, the number of infected houses, in which the remaining
2,620 notified cases occurred, was 2,363, and in each of
these houses a systematic sanitary examination was made of the
drains and the traps, fittings and appliances with the following
results:—
(a) 130 (i.e., 5.5 per cent.) were found to have defective drains,
i.e., gave results with the tests employed.
(b) 1,007 (i.e., 42.6 per cent.) were found to have defective
traps, fittings and appliances.
(c) 1,226 (i.e., 51.9 per cent.) showed no defects.
These figures are comparable with the quinquennial averages
for the Parish during 1891.95 and 1896.1900, and for the Borough
during 1901.5 and 1906.1910, given in Table 1.
*Whooping Cough, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Polio.myelitis Acuta, and
Cerebro.spinal Fever are included in the 1914 figures. Excluding them, the
incidence rate for 1914 is 8.8 for the Borough.