View report page

44
creased number of cases there has been no corresponding
increase in the number of deaths. During 1911 there were
3 deaths registered from this cause, while in the previous
year, 1910, there were 5 deaths. As Scarlet Fever is a
disease that tends to recur in cycles, 1 am rather afraid we
are on a rising wave, and that 1912 will show a further
increase, unless successful means can be adopted to limit
the spread. The disease as a whole has been of a mild type.
In a modern town like Ilford the associated sanitary conditions
are not bad, and therefore do nothing to produce
that more severe type of disease which is met with when
sanitary surroundings are primitive and bad.

fairly evenly distributed throughout the year, but with
an increasing incidence in the autumn, as might be expected.
Of the 135 cases notified, 90 were between
the ages of 5 and 15, and as this corresponds with the
school age, and, as a matter of fact, involved the schools,
more detailed report on this disease will be made in the
School section. Unfortunately there were 9 deaths registered
from this disease. For some years now, Anti-toxin has been
supplied free to any medical practitioner who cares to apply