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INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATION.
During the year ended at Lady-day, 120 parishioners were
notified to the Medical Officer of Health as suffering from
infectious disease, viz. :—
Small-Pox 1
Cholera 0
Diphtheria 20
Membraneous Croup 2
Erysipelas 14
Scarlet Fever 70
Typhus Fever 0
Typhoid Fever 13
Relapsing Fever 0
Continued Fever 0
Puerperal Fever 0
Total 120
The Vestry endorsed the opinion expressed by the
Chelsea Vestry that erysipelas, except idiopathic or infectious
cases, might be removed from the list of diseases
required to be notified to the local sanitary authority, and
communicated with the Local Government Board and
Metropolitan Asylums Board to that effect.
In due course a reply was received from the Asylums
Board to the effect that they had asked the Local Government
Board to consider whether the retention of erysipelas
as a notifiable disease serves any purpose sufficiently useful
to justify the large cost involved thereby. There the
matter rests for the present.
The Vestry have also had under consideration a suggestion
by the Vestry of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster,
that steps should be taken to include Measles