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Excluding Measles and Phthisis, the greatest number of notifiable diseases
occurred during the fourth week in February and the first week in June, when in
each of these weeks 51 cases were notified. In the former period, 26 cases of Small
Pox and in the latter, 19 cases of Chicken Pox and 13 of Erysiplas were included.
The number of notifications of Scarlet Fever was less than 10 a week during the
first five months of the year. In the last week in June and the first week in July
and August, 13 were notified, but this number dropped to 10 and under, for the
remaining three weeks in July, and the second and third weeks in August. In the
last week of August the number went up to 14, and it gradually increased until the
fourth week in October when the number was 22, which was the maximum number
in any one week throughout the year.
The number of cases of Enteric Fever reached its maximum of 9 in the second
week in October, which is about the usual time for this disease to be at its height.
Diphtheria was at its height during the first and third weeks in March, the
first week in August and the third week in November.
The largest number of Notifiable Diseases occurred during the first week in
February in the Limehouse District, the second week in April in St. George's, the
fourth week in February in Mile End, and the second week in October in the
Whitechapel District.
Wrong Diagnosis.
72 cases of Infectious Disease were removed to the Hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, which were subsequently returned home in consequence
of the patient being found not to be suffering from the disease stated on the certificate,
or any other notifiable disease. 39 of the cases were notified from public
institutions, chiefly the London Hospital, and 33 were notified by private
practitioners.
This number consisted of 36 cases of Scarlet Fever, 32 cases of Diphtheria,
1 of Typhoid Fever, 1 of Small Pox and 2 of Cholera.
Bacteriological Examinations.
799 specimens were bacteriologically examined, 175 giving positive results.