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As regards
Scarlatina,
the record is very good indeed. Only 39 cases occurred, out of
which 24 were removed, and 1 should say that there was no
other Parish in the Metropolis, compared with the population,
that could boast of so small a number.
Here I should like to add that not once has a case
recurred in a house after disinfection by the Sanitary Department.
The Metropolis has no doubt suffered from a large
amount of
Diptheria,
and Charlton is credited with 11 cases notified. I found some
of these so trivial that I venture to think that they might have
been called by a milder name—indeed, one of them had never
been ordered to bed at all. Here is an instance of a case where
a Medical Officer of Health might have some power of revising
or confirming diagnosis, as the credit of a house or neighbourhood
might suffer in consequence.
Typhoid
cases were only 3, and it was difficult to account for any of thsm,
but at any rate the number is not large compared with other
Parishes.