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District. 15
The above two Tables give the number of notifications
received in the year, distributed in the sub-districts,
and the number in each year since the notification Act
was passed. The Chart on the next page shows the
number of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and Enteric Fever
cases notified in each month of the year.
small-pox. There was no death from this cause, and
only one case notified, in the sub-district of
Wandsworth. No death has occurred since 1895 in this
district. There was but one death in the whole of
London from Small-pox in 1898.
scarlet Fever. The number of cases notified during the year
was 703, compared with 1,014 in the previous
year. The number of deaths was 15, or 12 below the
corrected decennial average. The case mortality was
1-47 per cent. The deaths from Scarlet Fever give a rate
per thousand persons living of 0'08, compared with 0'13
for the whole of London. This rate is less than those
of most of the London District, and indeed there are only
nine districts with rates of smaller value. Observation
of the Chart of monthly notifications shows that the fewest
number of cases occurred in the month of August, when
30 cases were reported, there having been a fairly
continuous fall to that level from the beginning of the
year. From August, the number of cases rose rapidly to
a maximum of 96 in December. The deaths show that
the disease was of an exceedingly mild type, and
altogether it had a very slight effect on the total
mortality.
Diphtheria and These diseases are coupled together, being proMembranous
croup bably essentially the same. In contra-distinction
from Scarlet Fever we find that not.
only had we great prevalence of Diphtheria in 1898, but
we had as well great mortality. There were 589 cases