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Deaths. Table F shows the death-rate from diarrhoea
in London and Woolwich in the summer quarter of the years
1901-12. Notification (adopted in Woolwich in 1905) has
not been similarly carried out in any other London borough.
Last year it was made compulsorily notifiable in Greenwich.
The table indicates that whereas, before notification, Woolwich
had a slightly higher diarrhoea mortality than London, since
notification commenced the Woolwich death-rate has decreased
to a marked extent, both absolutely and compared
with London. The mild weather of August and September
is no doubt the chief cause of the low diarrhoea mortality of
last summer.
ERYSIPELAS.
61. There were 87 cases of erysipelas notified, compared
with 103, 89, and 82, in the three preceding years. There
were 3 deaths. The case-rate was 0.71, and the death-rate
0.02, compared with 0.01, 0.02, and 0.07, in the three preceding
years. The London case-rate was 0.91. The London
death-rate in 1911 was 0.04.
EPIDEMIC CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS.
62. 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.
1 case was notified in the Borough in each of the two
years 1907-8, but none in 1909. 1 case was notified in
1910, 1 in 1911, and 1 in 1912. This case was fatal.