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104
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
One of the deaths was of a child that had been
removed from Battersea parish, the parents having,
while the child was in hospital, removed to this parish.
The case mortality for the whole of London was
3.43 per cent.
The greatest number of notifications was received
in December, viz. 59, 48 of These being from the
Patriotic Asylum, and the fewest, viz. 11 in October.
The proportion of notified cases per 1,000 of population
was in this parish 4.6 per 1,000, while for the
whole of London this rate was 3.7 per 1,000.
No difficulty was this year experienced in having
cases of Scarlet Fever removed to hospital.
The death-rate per 1,000 from Scarlet Fever for
the year was T3, compared with T9 in 1897, and .25
in 1896. For the Metropolis this death-rate was
also .13.
The only point of special note with reference to
Scarlet Fever during 1898, was the outbreak in the
months of November and December in the Royal
Victoria Patriotic Asylum.
In the outbreak 117 cases occurred, and the incidence
of these was as follows:—
1st case notified Nov. 19. 1st symptoms 17 Nov. Removed to
Hospital Nov. 18
2nd „ „ 19 „ 18 „ „ „ 18
3rd „ „ 19 „ 18 „ „ ,, 18
4th „ „ 21 „ 20 „ „ „ 20
These cases occurred respectively in dormitories
Nos. 3, 9, 11 and 12. The dormitories were disinfected
on November 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th.