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Your Council has also encouraged the voluntary notification
of zymotic enteritis or diarrhoea, by undertaking to pay
the usual fees to medical men who notify such cases.
Children absent from school on account of measles and
whooping cough are notified by the school teacher or attendance
officer. Thus some form of notification is in existence
for altogether nineteen diseases.
Smallpox and Vaccination.
26. No case of Small-pox was notified; up to 1912 only
one case has occurred since 1905, viz:— in 1910. It was a
man living as deputy in a common lodging house, who was
not known to have been out of Woolwich for several weeks.
27. The number of cases of Small-pox notified in London
was 63.
Chicken-pox.
28. 232 cases of Varicella were notified by school teachers,
compared with 286, 243, and 327, in the three preceding
years. 65 were under five years, 153 between five and ten,
and 14 over ten years.
Owing to the outbreak of Small-pox in the East of
London, Chicken-pox was made compulsorily notifiable for
four months, March to June. 85 cases were notified in
Woolwich. Enquiries made into these showed that none
were Small-pox.
Measles.
29. There were 28 deaths from Measles, giving a rate of
0:23, compared with 0.08, 0 43, and 0.16, in the three