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Treatment of Tuberculosis in Sanatoria and Hospital.
No. of applications made in 1920:—
To Loudon Insurance Committee—
Soldiers 82
Others 70
— 152
To London County Council 82
— 234
No. of cases admitted in 1920:—
By London Insurance Committee—
Soldiers 79
Others 49
— 128
By the London County Council 62
— 190
These figures may be compared with the following:—
No. of cases notified on Form C in 1920 as having been admitted to sanatoria, 189
„ „ „ „ Poor Law Institutions, 248
SMALLPOX.
No cases of smallpox occurred in St. Pancras in 1920. There have been no cases in
the Borough since 1904, except the 10 cases which occurred in 1919. There were 19 cases
in the County of London in 1920.
SCARLET FEVER.
863 (civil) patients were notified in 1920 as suffering from scarlet fever. Of these 53
were afterwards reported not to be suffering from the disease by medical superintendents of
the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and 2 by other medical practitioners.
The corrected number of scarlet fever cases (civil) notified was, therefore, 808, equal
to an incidence rate of 3.47 per 1,000 civil population.
The number of deaths from scarlet fever certified during the year was 11, equal to a
death-rate of 0.05 per 1,000 civil population, and a case mortality of 1.36 per cent, of cases
notified.

*From 1913 onwards the figures have been corrected for errors of diagnosis.