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Scarlet Fever.
18. There were 300 cases of scarlet fever compared with 707
in 1899. This is the lowest number of cases of scarlet fever in
the last nine years. There were only 5 deaths. The case-rate
and death-rate per 1,000 population were 4.4 and 0.04 respectively.
(See Table V., which gives these rates for the past ten
years.) Both these rates are lower than in any year since 1891.
19. Of the 300 cases 246 were removed to the Fever
Hospital, or over four-fifths of the whole, showing that the
proportion of cases treated at Hospital has continued to increase.
In four cases the diagnosis was not confirmed by the Hospital
Medical Officers.
Table D.

The above table seems to shew that whereas in former years
when a much smaller proportion of cases went to Hospital
the cases that did go were the more serious ones, in recent
years the cases left at home are largely the most fatal.
21. Two-thirds of the cases were between the ages of 1 and
10. Earl Street, Conway Road, and Ancona Road Schools had
the largest number of pupils affected, but all the schools with
the exception of Knee Hill, had a considerable number of cases.
With the exception of Knee Hill (where no cases occurred)
Bloomfield Road was the least affected.