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VI. -PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES.
2,463 notifications of infectious disease were received, 2,284 less than in Notifiable Diseases.
the previous year : —
488 belonged to Limehouse.
343 belonged to St. George-in-the-East.
1,182 belonged to Mile End Old Town.
450 belonged to Whitechapel.
1,961 were removed for treatment to fever hospitals and institutions.
The rate for the whole Borough was 11.0 per 1,000 of the population.
Scarlet fever •
952 cases were notified during the year, or 254 less than in the previous
year.
165 belonged to Limehouse, with 1 death.
147 belonged to St. George-in-the-East, with 1 death.
447 belonged to Mile End Old Town, with 4 deaths.
193 belonged to Whitechapel, with 1 death.
946 were removed to hospital.
The death-rate for the whole Borough was .03 per 1,000 of the population.
742 cases were notified during the year, or 151 more than in the previous Diphtheria.
year.
145 belonged to Limehouse, with 3 deaths.
120 belonged to St. George-in-the-East, with 8 deaths.
354 belonged to Mile End Old Town, with 10 deaths.
123 belonged to Whitechapel, with 1 death.
740 were removed to hospital.
The death-rate for the whole Borough was 0.9 per 1,000 of the population
This serum is supplied on request to the general medical practitioners of diphtheritic
the Borough. During the year, 59 tubes each containing 4,000 units were Serum,
issued from the Public Health Offices.
The number of cases of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria being high in the
Borough as compared with other Boroughs, I caused an investigation to be
made into the possible reasons for this, and in the hope that it would be
possible to mitigate some of the conditions which have been found to assist the
spread of infection. These investigations covered a period of three months
ended 30th September, when 179 cases of Scarlet Fever, and 166 of Diphtheria
were reviewed.
It was impossible to find the exact source of infection and it
was decided to work on presumptive evidence.