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and 3 in Kidbrooke; 147 of these cases were removed to the Hospital
for treatment. There was 1 death from this disease during
the year, as against 4 last year.
Five of the cases removed to the Hospital as suffering from
Scarlet Fever were returned as wrongly diagnosed, i.e., 1 stated
to be Consumption, 2 Chronic Otorrhoea, no alternative disease
being stated in the remaining 2 cases.
There were no "return eases" this vear. There were 6 in
1916, 4 in 1915, 5 in 1912, 7 in 1911, 4 in 1910.
Typhoid Fever. There were 13 cases of Typhoid Fever
notified during the year, 4 being in East Greenwich, 5 in West
Greenwich, 3 in St. Nicholas, 1 in Charlton. The ages of the
patients were: 5 between five and fifteen years; 3 between fifteen
and twenty-five years and 3 between twenty-five and fortv-five
years, 1 between forty-five and sixty-five and 1 over sixty-five*.
Of the total number of cases, 12 were removed to the Hopital for
treatment. Fourteen such cases occurred in 1916, twenty-five in
1915 and seventeen in 1914; the average number for the years 1901
to 1916, inclusive, being 31.
There were two fatalities from this disease during the year,
1 in East Greenwich and 1 in West Greenwich.
Sixteen specimens were forwarded for bacteriological examination
from cases suspected to be Typhoid Fever in character, and
of this number, 9 gave a negative result, and 7 were positive.
Puerperal Fever. Three cases of this disease were notified
during the year, 1 in West Greenwich and 2 in St. Nicholas.
There were 14 cases in 1916, 4 in 1915, and 4 in 1914; 3 of
these patients were removed to Hospital. There was 1 death from
this disease during the year.
Measles. This disease was made notifiable on January 1st,
1916; 1,469 cases of Measles were notified by school teachers and
others during the year, as compared with 1,378 during the previous
year, 971, 982 and 344 in the years 1915, 1914 and 1913 respectively.
The ages and incidence of fatality of the disease were as follows:—There
were o90 cases under five years of age, amongst
whom there were 42 deaths, giving a case mortality of 71 per cent.
Between the ages of five to fifteen years there were 730, with 3
deaths at this age period, giving a case mortality of 0.41 per cent.
The case mortality for the whole district works out at 3.06
per cent.