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Infectious Disease Notification Clauses in 1888 was recorded. 1,703
cases were reported and 39 deaths occurred, giving an attack rate and
death rate of 5.6 and 0.12 respectively. The chief incidence fell upon
the Plaistow and Custom House Wards, these two districts being
responsible for nearly one.third of the cases. Roughly speaking, an
average of about 125 cases occurred each month during the year,
except during October, when 306 cases were notified, a fact most
probably associated with the reassembling of the children in school
after the August holidays, and the intermingling with the healthy of
some mild and unrecognised cases. During the year 830 cases of
Scarlatina were removed to hospital, being 48 per cent. of the cases
notified. Dr. Scuifield, Medical Officer of Health of Sheffield, has
recently collected statistics relating to this disease from the largest
English towns, and the information he obtained is embodied in the
Table on following page, from which it will be seen that, save in respect
of the attack rate for 1906, West Ham compares favourably with the
majority of the other towns.