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The total number of cases, viz.—552, is above the number for
1913, and also the decennial average, but there was no outbreak
of any special significance in any part of the Borough, with the
exception of two slight outbreaks, one in a school in Tooting in
September, and the other in a school in Wandsworth in November.
The next Table shows the number of cases notified since 1891,
the number of deaths, the notification rate, the death-rate, and the
case mortality for 23 years, as also the average for the 23 years,
compared with the year 1914.
It will be observed the case-rate is .18 lower than the average,
and the death-rate is lower by 10 per 1,000, while the case mortality
has been reduced from 11.9 per cent, to 7.4. This reduction in
the mortality is mainly due to the use of antitoxin as a remedy.
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