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SECTION F.
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Scarlet Fever.
During the year 235 cases of Scarlet Fever, yielding a case rate of 3.6
per 1,000 of the population, were notified. The corresponding rate in
England and Wales being 2.53.
The rates in this District in the years 1935, 1934 and 1933 were 3.5,
4.3 and 5.4.
Of the total number of cases 147 were admitted to the Romford Isolation
Hospital and 23 were sent to hospitals in London when accommodation
was not available locally. Most of the cases were mild in character. Antiscarlet
serum is administered in the Romford Isolation Hospital to cases
admitted early in the disease and to all severe cases. It is considered that
the use of serum cuts short the course of the disease and it is now the
practice for uncomplicated cases to be detained in hospital for a period of
about 4 weeks.
One death occurred from Acute Septicaemia in a child of 8 years.
Diphtheria.
The number of cases of Diphtheria notified was 95 yielding a rate of
1.4 per 1,000 of the population, the case rate for England and Wales being
1.39. In the years 1935, 1934 and 1933 the case rates in this District were
1.9, 3.02 and 0.9.

The cases notified in each ward during each month of the year are
shown in the following table :—