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124
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
The mortality of the hospital treated cases was 7.8
per cent., and of those treated at home 20.6 per cent.,
or nearly three times as great. In 1899, these rates were
respectively 10.84 and 18.42, and in 1898, 12.8 and 23
per cent.
The low mortality of the hospital treated cases compared
with those treated at home, is due to the fact that
in hospital all, or nearly all, the cases are at once treated
with Antitoxic Serum, while in those kept at home, such
treatment is not so efficiently carried out.
Membranous Two cases were notified with no deaths,
Croup. compared with three cases and three deaths
in 1899. Nearly all these cases are now notified as
Laryngeal Diphtheria.
The total number of deaths from the two diseases
was 11, compared with 19 in 1899.
The case mortality was 12.6 per cent, compared with
15.2 in 1899, 16.3 in 1898, and 20.2 in 1897.
The rate of cases notified per 1,000 of population
was 1.25 compared with 1.81 in 1899, 2.6 in 1898, and
4.3 in 1897. For all London this rate was 2.6 in 1900,
3.01 in 1899, 2 6 in 1898, and 2.9 in 1897.
This parish had, consequently, only half the rate for
the Metropolis as a whole.
The case mortality for all London was 12.83 per
cent, compared with 14.21 in 1899, 14.8 in 1898, and 17
in 1897.
The death-rate from Diphtheria and Membranous
Croup per 1,000 of population was .166, compared with
•306 in 1899, .449 in 1898 and 854 in 1897.