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Erysipelas.
65. There were 103 cases of Erysipelas notified, compared
with 83, 110, 110, and 90, in the four preceding years. There
was 1 death. The case-rate was 0.80, and the death-rate 0 01.
The London case-rate was 0.87. The London death-rate was
0.3 in 1908. The Woolwich case-rate has only once been
higher, and the death-rate has only twice been lower, since
the Borough was formed.
Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis.
66. In consequence of the serious epidemic of this disease
in certain towns of Ireland and Scotland, cerebro-spinal
meningitis was made, in 1907, a notifiable disease under the
Public Health (London) Act, by the London County Council.
One case was notified in the Borough in each of the two years
1907.8, but none in 1909.
Puerperal Fever.
67. There were 9 cases of Puerperal Fever notified, compared
with 5, 12, 8, 6, and 6, in the five preceding years.
There was 1 death. The case-rate was 0.07, and the death.
rate 0.01. The death-rate has never been lower. The London
case-rate was 0.06, and death-rate in 1908, 0.03.
influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia.
68. Influenza caused 36 deaths, compared with 27, 23, 33,
30, and 29, in the five preceding years. Bronchitis and
Pneumonia caused 245 deaths, compared with 278, 255, 265,
298, and 228, in the five preceding years. The deaths from