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As compared with the figures for 1902, the above Table shews that there was a
slight increase in the number of cases of scarlet fever but very marked decreases in
the number of cases of diphtheria, enteric fever, puerperal fever and erysipelas. The
most noticeable feature, however, is the absence of any eases of small-pox. This will
be referred to later. The deaths from notifiable infectious disease numbered 49 as
compared with 144 in 1902, 72 in 1901, 99 in 1900, 121 in 1899, 96 in 1898, 136 in
1897, 135 in 1896 and 117 in 1895. The deaths from notifiable infectious disease
were the fewest recorded since the notification of infectious disease became compulsory.
The deaths from the principal zymotio diseases which are notifiable namely,
small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria and enteric fever, were at the rate 0-3 per 1,000
inhabitants as compared 1.2 in 1902 and 0.6 in 1901; deaths from the principal
zymotic diseases which are not notifiable, namely, measles, whooping cough and
diarrhoea, were at the rate of 2.4 per 1,000 inhabitants.
METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.
With few exceptions the whole of the cases removed to hospital for treatment
were taken into the various hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. The infectious
diseases which are received into the Board's hospitals are small-pox, scarlet
fever, diphtheria and typhoid fever. Including one case of continued fever, a disease
which frequently is found later on in its course to be typhoid fever, the number of