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It will be noticed from the above table that there was a considerable
increase in the number of cases notified as against the three previous
years. The number of cases per 1000 of the population was 2.29. The
corresponding figure in 1912 was 1.17. 4 cases, or 2.0 per cent, of those
notified, proved fatal; the death-rate per 1000 population was 0.04. In
the preceding year no death occurred from this disease.
Of the cases notified, 159, or 80 per cent., were removed to hospital.
The corresponding percentage in 1912 was 76.
The total number of houses attacked was 146; five houses had 3
cases, one house had 4 cases, and 2 houses had 5 cases in each.
Careful inquiries were made in each case, with a view to ascertaining
the source of infection. Eight of the cases occurred among the staff of
the North-Western Fever Hospital, as compared with. 5 in 1912.
The prevalence of Scarlet Fever was not limited to Hampstead:
it was common to the whole of the Metropolis during the year.
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