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Isolation of patients suffering from infectious diseases.
Accommodation for persons suffering from Scarlet Fever,
Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, Typhus Fever, and Small Pox, is
provided by the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
at their various hospitals, and the increasing recognition by the
public of the advantages accruing from the isolation of the
infectious sick, is shown by the steadily increasing proportion
of patients suffering from those diseases who are removed to
hospital.
TABLE XL.
Percentage of notified cases in Fulham removed to Isolation Hospitals
Scarelt Fever
Diphteria.
Enteric Fever
Small-Pox.
1891
64.4
41.5
37.3
-
1892
75.0
64.0
66.0
100
*1898
63.6
48.0
45.0
97
1894
78.0
70.0
70.0
98
1895
70.0
74.0
45.6
100
*1896
62.5
60.0
38.0
100
1897
75.0
65.0
41.5
—
1898
79.0
81.1
50.0
—
1899
81.7
81.6
51.0
100
1900
84.0
86.9
72.5
100
1901
85.4
82.0
68.2
94
Deaths from non-notifiable Zymotic Diseases.
Measles.—Measles caused 38 deaths, as compared with
50, 59, and 80 in the three preceding years. The death-rate
from the disease in Fulham, the adjoining boroughs and London
was :—
TABLE XLI.
Death-rate from Measles.
Fulham
0.27
Kensington
0.43
Hammersmith
0.41
Chelsea
0.13
County of London
0.43
* In these years the accommodation in the Board's hospitals was inadequate,
and many patients remained at home who otherwise would have been removed.