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Erysipelas.
62. There were 89 cases of Erysipelas notified, compared
with 110, 90, and 103, in the three preceding years. There
were 3 deaths. The case-rate was 070, and the death-rate
0 02. The London case-rate was 082. The London deathrate
was 0 04 in "1909. The Woolwich rates were the lowest
since 1905, with one exception.
Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis.
63. 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. One case was notified in
1910 in Eltham. This was an infant who was moved to the
Brook Hospital, and died there.
Puerperal Fever.
64. There were 7 cases of Puerperal Fever notified, compared
with 12, 8, 6, 6, and 9, in the five preceding years.
There were 3 deaths. The case-rate was 0.06, and the
death-rate 0.02. The London case-rate was 0.06, and the
death-rate in 1909, 0.04.
In the ten years 1891-1900, the case-rate was 0.07, and the
death-rate 0.03. In 1901-5 the case-rate was 0.06, and the
death-rate 0.03, and in 1906-10 the case-rate was 0.05and the
death-rate 0.016. Thus in the past five years the death-rate
has fallen To nearly one-half what it was in the previous
quinquennium, and the case-rate has been reduced. The