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Asylums Board, or to other Hospitals, and 1595, i.e., 57
per cent., remained under treatment at their own homes.
These percentages are more satisfactory than last year,
when only 30 4 per cent. of the cases were removed.
8125 per cent. smallpox cases, 53.8 per cent. scarlet fever,
43.2 per cent. typhoid, and 40 3 per cent. diphtheria, were
removed to Hospital respectively.
Table J gives the averages of Notification Certificates
received in Lambeth since 1889, and it will be seen that
during 1896 the total number is 157 above the average—
the greatest number of Notifications being received in
1893—though the incidence per 1000 of the population
during 1896 is only T above the average incidence for
the six years 1890—95 (i.e., since the introduction of the
Compulsory Notification Act).
The six cholera cases were probably cholera nostras
(English cholera), or infantile diarrhœa. The diphtheria
increase is a serious one—a total of 652 notifications being
received during the year 1896, i.e., the largest number ever
received in one year, and 137 above the average for the last
six years. The 652 cases occurred in 567 infected houses,
and in only 19.05 per cent. of these were the drains, on
testing, found defective.
The enteric fever (or typhoid) notifications were below
the average, and represent only 153 infected houses, of
which 261 per cent. were shewn, on testing, to be
defective.