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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
In the following Tables will be found particulars of infectious disease notified under
Sections 55 and 56 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and information as
to the removal of patients to hospitals, infirmaries, &c.:—
NATURE OF DISEASE.
Number of
Certificates
received.
Treated at
Home.
Removed
to the
Metropolitan
Asylums
Board
Hospitals.
Removed
to the
London
Fever
Hospital.
Treated at
other
Hospitals
and
Infirmaries.
Duplicate
Certificates
received.
Diagnosis
subsequently
found to be
incorrect.
Diphtheria
32
Nil
16
2
9
3
2
Scarlet Fever
54
Nil
35
8
2
8
1
Enteric „
9
Nil
1
1
3
3
1
Puerperal „
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Erysipelas
9
4
—
—
4
1
—
Cerebro.Spinal Meningitis
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Acute Polio.myelitis and
polioencephalitis
2
Nil
—
—
2
—
—
Opthalmia neonatorum
2
1
—
—
—
1
—
Totals
108
5
52
11
20
16
4
*Chicken.pox
5
5
.
.
.
.
.
Totals
113
10
52
11
20
16
4
* The notification of this disease is voluntary in the City of London.
It will be seen from the foregoing that during the year, excluding Chicken.pox,
108 Certificates were received, including 16 "duplicates," and four in which the
diagnosis was subsequently found to be incorrect.
The total number of cases of "notifiable infectious disease" was, therefore, 88, as
compared with 66 for the previous year. The total number of cases of Scarlet Fever
reported was 45, compared with 33 last year.
These figures call for no special comment. The large number of cases of Scarlet
Fever which have been notified in Greater London during the year naturally has had
an effect upon City residents who are surrounded by a numerous and dense population.
Any abnormal increase of infection is readily conveyed from outlying parts to the centre.
The following is a Return of infectious diseases notified, exclusive of Chicken.pox,
in the City of London, with the percentages of such cases removed for treatment
to hospitals or nursed at home during 1913, compared with the figures for the
previous five years:—
Per cent. of
cases reported.
year Number of
cases reported. ,
Removed to Treated at
Hospital. Home.
1908 90 91.0 90
1909 67 82 .1 17.9
1910 54 79.6 20.4
1911 67 83.6 16.4
1912 66 84.8 15.2
Average for previous gg 84.2 15.8
five years.
1913 88 94.3 5.7