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SCARLET FEYER.—The total number of cases notified
during the year amounted to 603, compared with 558 in 1906.
Of this number, 483, or 80 per cent., were removed to
the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals. Subsequently 19
cases were returned to their homes and stated not to be suffering
from any notifiable disease Deducting this number, a corrected
total of 584 is obtained, compared with 543 in 1906, equal to
an attack rate of 3.74 per 1,000 persons, compared with 3.65 in
1906, a slight increase. The attack rate for the County of
London was 5.46 per 1,000.
An examination of the attack rates for the various Wards
shows that the highest occurred in Lewisham Park Ward (6.08
per 1,000) and that the Ward least affected was Sydenham,
with 1.92 per 1,000.
Nearly 42 per cent. of the cases occurred among
children between the ages of 5 and 10 years, and 25.5 per cent.
to children under the age of five years.
Case Mortality.—Twelve deaths occurred in the Borough
from Scarlet Fever, equal to 2.05 per cent. of the cases notified,
compared with 2.57 in the previous year.
DIPHTHERIA.—Three hundred cases of Diphtheria were
notified, compared with 260 in 1906, and of this number
227, or 75 per cent. were removed to hospital. Thirteen
patients were returned home as not suffering, giving a
corrected total of 287, an increase of 43 over the number for
1906 (244). The attack rate per 1,000 of the population
amounted to 1.84, compared with 1.64 in the preceding year.
The rate for the County of London was 1.85 per 1,000.
Sydenham Ward suffered most from this disease, having
81 cases, equal to an attack rate of 2.83 per 1,000. Blackheath