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The Infectious Sickness Rate for London generally was 8.4.
Two hundred and sixty eight of the cases notified were
removed from their homes to Isolation Hospitals, and at times there
was delay in securing the hospital isolation of cases of Diphtheria
and Scarlet Fever, owing to the hospital accommodation being
overtaxed.
BACTERIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSES.
There is no gainsaying the advantages which bacteriological
examination affords for the purposes of judging the purity of
drinking-water, for facilitating that prompt diagnosis of certain
communicable diseases which enables the earliest adoption of the
necessary precautionary measures, and for ascertaining when
children and others who have been exposed to the infection of,
or who have suffered from, diphtheria may safely be allowed to
mix with others.
This provision is now a general one throughout the country—
to the extent of affording facilities to general practitioners for
the diagnosis of diphtheria, enteric fever and consumption.
The "diagnosis outfits" supplied by the Council to the medical
practitioners in Stoke Newington are of great service.

SCARLET FEVER.
The 224 cases of Scarlet Fever occurred in 190 houses.