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Parish of Clapham.
cases, or 60 per cent, of the whole, removed to hospital.
This compares with 71.3 per cent, in the previous year,
but is a higher figure than in the three years before that.
It should be borne in mind with regard to Scarlet Fever
now-a-days that its very mildness makes it more difficult
to control, because there must be a higher proportion of
cases that are not recognised at all until peeling shows
itself, when there will have been ample opportunity of
infecting others.
Diphtheria. This disease was more prevalent in 1898 than
in any year since notification came into force,
no less than 186 cases being reported. This was exactly
double the number notified in 1897, and was greatly in
excess of the number in the previously worst year, 1894,
when there were 125. Out of every thousand inhabitants
in the district 3.66 were attacked with Diphtheria, while
the corresponding rate for the whole of London was 2.63,
so there has been an excessive prevalence of the disease in
Clapham. The deaths numbered 27, giving a rate of .55
per thousand living. The corresponding rate for London
was .39. and those for the adjacent districts of Battersea
and Lambeth were .70 and .38 respectively. The deathrate
per hundred cases was slightly lower than in the
whole of London, the figures being 14.5 in Clapham and
14.8 in London. The number removed to hospital was
126, or 67.7 per cent. of the whole, whilst in the year
before, 52.6 per cent. were removed. The percentage mortality
of those removed was 15.3, and of those not removed
11.6.
The cases were distributed through the year as
follows:—
January 14. July 13.
February 14. August 6.
March 10. September 22.
April 16. October 32.
May 7. November 26.
June 9. December 17.