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The cases are grouped according to ages in Table II (Appendix). Of the cases
certified 337 or 97.6 per cent. were removed to hospital. The cases certified were
at the rate of 3.2 per 1,000 inhabitants, being a little below the average for the
previous 10 years. The attack-rate per 1,000 population in the Borough was lowest in
Hoxton, and highest in Acton Ward, being 24 in the former, as compared with 4.9
in the latter.
The deaths numbered 6, being at the rate of 0.07 per 1,000 population.
There were no deaths in Moorfields, Wenlock, Haggerston and Acton Wards. The
death-rate was highest in Kingsland Ward where it was 0.19 per 1,000 population.
The case-mortality was at the rate of 1.7 per cent. of the cases certified, being
somewhat above the average for the previous 10 years. Amongst children under five
years there were 125 cases, 3 of which were fatal, the case-mortality being 2.4 or
2.5 per cent. allowing for errors in diagnosis. Amongst persons over five years
there were 220 cases with three deaths, and a case-mortality of T3 per cent, allowing
for errors in diagnosis.
The scarlet fever cases certified in the Metropolis numbered 17,233, being at the
rate of 3.8 per 1,000 population. The deaths numbered 299, which give a rate of
0 07 per 1,000 population as estimated to the middle of the year 1921.
DIPHTHERIA (INCLUDING MEMBRANOUS CROUP).
The cases certified numbered 439, of which 2 or 0.4 per cent. were subsequently
not regarded as being diphtheria.