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There were 1,319 deaths of non-residents in Public Institutions in the District,
and 781 deaths of residents in Public Institutions outside the district.
Notifiable Diseases.
3,336 notifications of infectious disease were received, or 80 less than in the
previous year. Deducting the notifications of Chicken-Pox—which was not a
notifiable disease in 1914—the decrease was 498. This corresponds to a rate of
12.5 per 1,000 of the population.
In addition to the above, 16 soldiers were notified to be suffering from
infectious diseases, viz., 5 from Diphtheria, 5 from Scarlet Fever, 2 from Enteric
Fever, 3 from Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, and 1 from Chicken-Pox.
2,571 were removed to various Hospitals and Infirmaries.
483 belonged to the Limehouse District, or at the rate of 9.5 per 1,000.
597 belonged to St. George-in-the-East, or at the rate of 13.2 per 1,000.
1,214 belonged to Mile End Old Town, or at the rate of 11.2 per 1,000.
1,042 belonged to the Whitechapel District, or at the rate of 16.8 per 1,000.
There were received in addition, 2,670 notification certificates referring to
Tuberculosis, 1,335 being notified for the first time.
Excluding Tuberculosis, the greatest number of notifiable diseases occurred
during the second week in June, when 104 were notified. The greatest number
of notifications of Scarlet Fever was received during the first week in September
when 58 were notified, and of Diphtheria during the last week in July and third
weeks of September and October, when 38 cases were notified in each week. Four
cases of Enteric Fever were notified during the first week in April ; in no other
week did the number exceed two.
The maximum number of cases occurred during the second week in June in
the Limehouse District, the last week in June and July and second week in August
in St. George's, the second week in September in Mile End, and second week in
June in the Whitechapel District.
Wrong Diagnosis
95 cases of Infectious Disease were removed to the Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board, which were subsequently returned home in
consequence of the patients being found not to be suffering from the diseases
stated on the certificates, or any other notifiable disease. 52 of the
cases were notified by private practitioners, 38 from the London Hospital, and
5 from other public institutions.
This number referred to 50 cases of Scarlet Fever, 13 of Diphtheria, and 2 of
Enteric Fever.