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SCARLET FEVER.
Table XIX.—Notified Cases of Scarlet Fever during
the Past Five Years, with the Percentage Mortality.
Cases
Notified.
Deaths.
Percentage
Mortality.
1901
396
13
3.29
1902
393
3
.76
1903
397
13
3.27
1904
445
6
1.3
1905
505
9
1.7
Sixty more cases were reported than last year, viz., 550
against 445, and there were 3 more fatal cases, viz., 9, as against
6 in 1904. The character of the disease was slightly more severe
than in 1904.
Of the total number of cases—
45 or 8.9 per cent. occurred in the Leyton Ward
90 „ 17.8 „ „ Lea Bridge „
87 „ 17.2 „ „ Central „
34 „ 6.7 „ „ Forest „
31 „ 6.1 „ „ Leytonstone „
49 „ 9.7 „ „ Grove Green „
60 „ 11.8 „ „ Harrow Green „
44 „ 87 „ „ Cann Hall „
65 „ 7.2 „ „ Wanstead Slip „
DIPHTHERIA.
The number of cases notified was 118 and the deaths 10, or
8.4 per cent. This compares favourably with the 9.3 percentage of
1904, and the decrease in the number of fatal cases may fairly be
ascribed as largely due to the early application of the anti-toxin
treatment.