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COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
The Table at page 88, shows the number of notifications of the
scheduled diseases, after correction for duplicate returns, in
the entire Metropolis, and in the several sanitary areas comprised
therein. The Table at page 117, shows the number of
notifications in London and in Kensington, in thirteen periods
corresponding with my four-weekly reports. In this Table
it has been impossible to make the aforementioned correction ;
but the totals will not differ to any material extent. This
Table has interest as showing at what periods of the year the
several diseases were most prevalent. The notifications in
the Town sub-district were 895; in the Brompton sub-district
289. Total 1184. Table IXa (Appendix) shows the
streets, &c., where cases of the scheduled diseases occurred.
Owing mainly to the prevalence of scarlet fever, the total
number of notifications in London (47,341, without correction)
shows a great increase upon previous years. The notifications
from each of the scheduled diseases during the last three years
are set out in the subjoined Table.

The Notification Act of 1889 has been adopted by a
large majority of provincial Sanitary Authorities, urban and
rural. The time surely, has arrived when the Act should be
made compulsory for the whole kingdom, as it has been in
London from the first.