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I received notice of 395 cases of infectious disease during the
year. The different diseases are thus tabulated :—
Chicken Pox 75
Scarlet Fever 42
Enteric Fever 12
Diphtheria 251
Membranous Croup 1
Erysipelas 14
Total 395
146 of these cases were removed to the Isolation Hospital.
The following is a succinct account of the different infectious
diseases requiring action by your sanitary officials during the year.
My practice is to request the Sanitary Inspector to visit each house as
soon as I receive notification of the existence of infectious disease
there, visiting myself subsequently all those cases which I consider
require my doing so.
Small Pox.—No case of this desease was notified during the
year.
Chicken Pox.—Seventy-five cases were notified, but this does not
include the whole of the year, as this disease was only made notifiable
during the epidemic of Small Pox in the previous year. Small Pox
having disappeared, Chicken Pox was removed from the list of
notifiable diseases.
Scarlet Fever.—Forty-two cases of this disease were notified,
most of the cases having occurred in the parishes of Dagenham and
Hornchurch. Twenty-one were removed to the Isolation Hospital.
Two deaths occurred from this disease.
Enteric Ferer.—The district was unusually free from this
disease. Twelve cases were notified ; two were fatal.
Diphtheria prevailed very extensively. 251 cases were notified,
203 of which occurred in the Rainham locality. Eight deaths were