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TABLE XIX.
Number of cases of Diphtheria notified per 10,000 of the
population.
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
Mean of
10 years
1896-1905
1906
Baron's Court
Ward
13
17
26
26
21
29
22
9
10
20
19
16.9
Lillie
30
28
36
36
43
58
23
23
13
14
30
17.1
Walham
24
38
44
40
29
36
17
29
10
17
28
14.8
Margravine
27
21
41
41
45
40
23
15
21
22
30
40.0
Munster
46
33
40
49
62
58
48
15
24
17
39
24.2
Hurlingham
12
28
44
51
18
40
19
27
20
22
28
16.2
Sands End
64
75
43
49
77
48
36
31
34
22
48
35.5
Town
15
11
34
35
36
39
16
17
13
12
23
20.2
The Borough
30
32
38
40
47
43
30
20
20
18
31
23.3
The County of
London
31
38
26
30
26
27
24
17
16
14
25
17.8
Fatality.—The disease terminated fatally in 33 cases; the
proportion of deaths to notified cases being 8.2 per cent.
The fatality of hospital cases was 6.7 per cent., and of cases
not removed 22.2 per cent.
The reduction of recent years in the fatality of Diphtheria,
due mainly to the use of antitoxic serum, will be seen from
the following table:—