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It is very much to be regretted that there is no provision for
the isolation of suspected cases of Small Pox in London. It is
often most difficult to make a certain diagnosis between Small Pox
and Chicken Pox in the early stage, and it would be much more to
the advantage of the community that all suspicious cases of Chicken
Pox should be removed and isolated, than that a single case of true
Small Pox should be allowed to remain and act as a centre for the
spread of this disfiguring and dangerous disease.
SCARLET FEVER.
{Decennial average 84.6 deaths).
The number of cases of Scarlet Fever notified during the year
was 544. The disease caused 29 deaths, a mortality of 5.33 per
cent, on the reported cases.
FEVERS.
[Decennial average 32.6 deaths).
The number of cases of Enteric and Continued Fevers reported
was 149; one case was reported as Relapsing Fever, three as Typhus,
and the remaining 144 as Enteric. This last disease was fatal in
eighteen cases, a mortality of twelve per cent, on the number
reported. No death was certified as caused by Typhus or Relapsing
Fever, but one was returned as caused by Continued Fever.
DIPHTHERIA (Including MEMBRANOUS CROUP).
(.Decennial average 69.0 deaths).
In 267 of the certificates received under the Notification of
Infectious Diseases Act, Diphtheria was returned as the disease
from which the patient was suffering, and 22 others were certified
as Membranous Croup. The number of deaths registered as from
these two diseases was 69, a case mortality of 23.87 per cent., and