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The percentages of return cases in respect to the number of cases removed
to hospital was 1.7, as compared with 1.9 in 19(37 and 1.5 in 1900. In four
instances it will be noticed that nothing was discovered in respect to the
patients returning from hospital to indicate that they were likely to convey
infection; in five instances a discharge from the nose was observed, but in
two of these it made its appearance subsequent to the return of the patient.
SMALLPOX.
No case of smallpox was certified in Shoreditch, and only one appears
to have been notified in the whole of London during the year.
Five intimations were received from port sanitary authorities relative
to persons off ships, on which smallpox had occurred, who were proceeding
to addresses in the Borough. The usual enquiries were made in each case.
VACCINATION.
The official figures as to vaccination in the Borough are those published
in the reports of the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board.
The latest are for the year 1900. It appears that of the children
born in Shoreditch during that year 32.6 per cent. were not finally
accounted for as regards vaccination. This is a slight decrease on the percentage
for 1905. The cases in which vaccination was postponed are included
in making this calculation. Certificates as to conscientious objection were
obtained in 25 instances or 0.7 per cent, of the births, as compared with 0.8
in 1905, 0.5 in 1904, 0.6 in 1903, and 0.3 in 1902.
SCARLET FEVER.
The cases certified during 1908 numbered 590, as compared with 876 in
1907, 629 in 1906, 789 in 1905, 343 in 1904, and 255 in 1903. In 23, or 4
per cent., of the cases notified intimations were received from the Metropolitan
Asylums Board that the patients had not been suffering from scarlet fever.
Adding six cases of scarlet fever notified as diphtheria, the corrected number
of cases of scarlet fever was 573, as compared with 822 in 1907, 599 in 1906,
778 in 1905,, 326 in 1904, and 237 in 1903.