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As compared with the figures of 1903 cas-is of scarlet fever, erysipelas and diphtheria
were increased in number during 1904, whilst there was a very marked decrease
in the number of cases of enteric fever. Puerperal fever cases were less by two. Fourteen
cases of smallpox were certified as against none in 1903.
The deaths from notifiable infectious disease numbered 50 as compared with 49 in
1903, 144 irr 1902, 72 in 1901, 99 in 1900, 121 in 1899, 96 in 1898, 136 in 1897, 135 in
1896, and 117 in 1895. The marked increase in the number of deaths noticeable for
1902 was the result of the smallpox outbreak that year. Otherwise of late years
there has been a marked decline in the number of deaths resulting from notifiable infectious
disease in Shoreditch. The deaths from the principal infectious diseases which
are notifiable, namely smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria and enteric fever were at the
rate of 0.3 per 1,000 population as compared with 2.8 for the principal infectious
diseases which are not notifiable, namely, measles, whooping cough and diarrhoea.
METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.
The great majority of the cases of infectious disease removed to hospital for treatment
were taken to the various hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. The
exceptions were certain cases of typhoid fever which were treated at general hospitals,
cases of erysipelas taken into the Shoreditch Infirmary and one or two cases of scarlet
fever and diphtheria treated at the Liverpool Road Fever Hospital.
The infectious diseases which are received at the hospitals of the Board are smallpox,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, and typhoid fever. The number of cases of these diseases
certified was 588 and the number removed to hospital was 562; the percentage of cases