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The deaths from measles in 1936 numbered 584 compared with 19 in 1935.
The death-rate was 14 per thousand.
The death-rates in London and England and Wales in recent years have been as
follows:—
Measles.

A special report on the measles epidemic of 1935-36 will be published shortly
There were 278 deaths from whooping-cough in London during 1936 compared
with 166 in 1935. The death-rate was .07 per thousand.
The death-rates in London and England and Wales in recent years are shown
in the following table:—
Whoopingcough.

There were 10,705 notifications of scarlet fever in 1936 (53 weeks), the corresponding
figure for 1935 being 10,954. The attack-rate was 2.6 per thousand, which
was also the rate for 1935. The deaths numbered 42, giving a death-rate of .1 per
thousand of the population at all ages and a case-mortality of .4 per cent.
The seasonal incidence, as shown by the notifications (uncorrected for errors of
diagnosis) received in successive four-weekly periods during the year, was as
follows:—
Scarlet fever.

The notifications (uncorrected for errors in diagnosis), deaths and crude casemortality
during 1936 were as follows :—