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dance officer. Thus some form of notification is in existence
for, altogether, 19 diseases.
SMALL-POX.
27. Not a single case of small-pox was notified.
28. The number of cases of small-pox notified in London
was 3, but these were all found to be cases of mistaken
diagnosis.
MEASLES.
29. There were 25 deaths from measles, giving a rate of
0 19, compared with 0.23, 0.24, and 0.07, in the three
preceding years. The rate in London County was 0.31,
compared with 0.40 in 1912, and 0.34 in 1913.
30. Of the 25 who died from measles, 23 were under five
years of age; 14 were males and 11 females.
31. 967 notifications were received from school teachers,
compared with 768, 396, 801, 775, and 387, in the five
preceding years. The mortality per cent. of notifications was
2 6, compared with 7.2, 5.3, 3.5, 3.9, and 2.3, in the five
preceding years.
3 cases were removed to the Fever Hospital on the
certificate of the Medical Officer of Health that hospital
isolation was necessary.
32. The following table gives the number of deaths and
death-rates from measles for the past three years, and four
preceding quinquennia in each parish, and the death-rate in
London:—