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and 1.7 in 1901. The mortality from scarlet fever is heaviest during the early
years of life. During 1908 23 of the 28 deaths were of children under the age
of ten years, 4 were of children aged from 10 to 15 years, and one person
died aged between 20 and 25 years.
For the whole of London some 22,060 cases were certified, the attack-rate
being 4.6 per 1,000 inhabitants, as compared with 5.6 in 1907, 4.3 in 1906,
4.1 in 1905, 2.8 in 1904, 2.7 in 1903, 3.9 in 1902, 4.4 in 1901, and 3.0 m 1900.
The deaths numbered 548, the death-rate being 0.11 per 1,000, as
compared with 0.13 in 1907, 0.11 in 1906, 0.11 in 1905, 0.08 in 1904, 0.07 in
1903, 0.12 in 1902, 0.13 in 1901, and 0.08 in 1900.
The foregoing figures indicate, both for London and Shoreditch, that
scarlet fever during 1908 was less prevalent than in the previous year, but
that its prevalence was above the average for the previous eight years.
DIPHTHERIA.
The cases certified numbered 202, as compared with 211 in 1907 and 133
in 1906. Of these 35, or a little over 17 per cent., were not regarded as
diphtheria at the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. In six of
these the cases, subsequent to removal to hospital, proved to be cases of scarlet
fever.

These cases are grouped according to ages in Table III. (Appendix).