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It will be seen from the preceding table that the
total number of deaths from these zymotic diseases last
year was, making no allowance for the increase in
population, 23 below the average number registered
in the last 10 years.
CASES OF ILLNESS REPORTED AS DUE
TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
There were, omitting tuberculosis, 818 cases reported
as due to notifiable infectious diseases inthis Borough
against 650 in the previous year. The number of cases
of tuberculosis notified was 718, against 438 in the
previous year. There were also reported 1,242 cases
of infectious diseases that were not notifiable, against
1,058 in the previous year ; 171 of these were chickenpox,
700 measles, and 371 whooping cough.
SMALL-POX.
No case of small-pox was notified in the Borough
last year, against no case in the previous year.
CHICKEN-POX.
One hundred and seventy-one cases of chicken-pox
were reported, against 363 cases in the previous year.
Three hundred and sixty cases reported last year
were treated at the homes of the patients and 3 at
Hampstead Workhouse. No death was registered.
MEASLES.
Seven hundred cases were reported as due to
measles, against 487 cases in the previous year. Five
hundred and ninety-seven cases were treated at the
homes of the patients, and 103 at the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospitals. Forty-nine deaths were
registered. As this is not a notifiable disease it is of no
use my giving the mortality rate on the cases reported,