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SCARLET FEVER.—The total number of cases notified
during the year amounted to 617, compared with 603 in 1907.
Of this number, 516, or 83 per cent., were removed to
the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals. Subsequently 17
cases were returned to their homes and stated not to be suffering
from any notifiable disease. Deducting this number, a corrected
total of 600 is obtained, compared with 584 in 1907, equal to
an attack rate of 3.77 per 1,000 persons, compared with 3.82 in
1907. The attack rate for the County of London was 4.53 per
1,000.
An examination of the attack rates for the various Wards
shows that the highest occurred in South Ward, Lee (5.94 per
1,000) and that the Ward least affected was Sydenham, with .
1.82 per 1,000.
Fourty.four per cent, of the cases occurred among
children between the ages of 5 and 10 years, and 22.6 per cent,
to children under the age of five years.
Case Mortality.—Eleven deaths occurred in the Borough
from Scarlet Fever, equal to 1.83 per cent, of the cases notified,
compared with 2.05 in the previous year.
DIPHTHERIA.—F our hundred and seventy.two cases of
Diphtheria were notified, compared with 300 in 1907, and of this
number 372, or 79 per cent., were removed to hospital. Twelve
patients were returned home as not suffering, giving a
corrected total of 458, an increase of 171 over the number for
1907 (287). The attack rate per 1,000 of the population
amounted to 2.87, compared with 1.88 in the preceding year.
The rate for the County of London was 1.64 per 1,000.
Brockley Ward suffered most from this disease, having
50 cases, equal to an attack rate of 4.13 per 1,000. Church
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