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38. Table 3 gives the age distribution, the number in
each parish, and the number removed to hospital. East
Plumstead was most affected.
39. There were 13 deaths, giving a death-rate of 0 10
per 1,000 population, compared with an average of 0 09 in
the five preceding years, and 019 in the ten years 18911900.
The death-rate in London was 0.04. The case
mortality (of deaths per cent. of notifications) was 2.6
compared with 1.5 and 1.9 in the two preceding years.
Of the deaths, 2 were in Woolwich parish and 11 in
Plumstead.
It appears from the Annual Report of the Medical Officer
of Health to the London County Council that, in the five
years 1903-7, only six Metropolitan Boroughs had a lower
death-rate from Scarlet Fever than Woolwich, but in 1909
the death-rate in Woolwich was the highest of all.
40. Hospital Isolation. Of the 524 cases, 470, or 90 per
cent., were removed to one of the Fever Hospitals, compared
with 81, 78, 85, 86, and 94, per cent. in the five preceding
years. 18 cases, or 3.4 per cent., were reported after observation
at hospital, not to be Scarlet Fever.
The very high percentage of cases removed to hospital was
slightly reduced last year, "but it is still a fact that a large
proportion, say one-third of notified cases, are removed to
hospital, not because they cannot be efficiently isolated at
home, but because the parents cannot afford the cost of
medical attendance and nursing. Much might be saved to
the rates if there was power to provide this at the public
cost.
41. Return Cases. There were 27 cases in which