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Scarlet Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Scarlet fever was less prevalent in 1920 than in 1919,
171 cases occurring in the year under review compared
with 201 in the previous year. The number for 1920
was higher than the numbers for 1916, 1917, and 1918,
which were respectively 146, 91 and 61, but was less
than those for the years 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915,
which were respectively 187, 326, 511 and 450. Ealing
shared during the year in the prevalence of the disease
in Greater London, which was especially affected in
the last quarter, although the extent of the prevalence
in Ealing was not so marked as in other Metropolitan
areas.
The disease, as already mentioned, was most prevalent
in the last quarter of the year, which accounted for
63 cases, although the first quarter supplied 55 cases,
the second and third quarters supplying respectively
32 and 21 cases. In the Table on page 37, the figures
indicating the occurrence of the disease in each month
are shewn alongside those for diphtheria.

The Lammas and Manor Wards were most affected,
the former having 58 and the latter 44 cases during the
year.