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Small-pox.—No case of this disease occurred in the Borough
during 1910, nor was any case admitted into Dagenham Small-pox
Hospital from any of the surrounding districts. The contributing
Authorities who signed the new Agreement are the Romford Joint
Hospital Board, East Ham Borough Council, the Urban District
Councils of Walthamstow, Woodford, Ilford, Wanstead, and Barking,
and the Ongar Rural District Council.
During the year applications were received from the Urban
Districts of Waltham, Loughton, and Brentwood, and the Rural
District of Billericay, for those Sanitary Authorities to be contributing
Authorities under the Agreement, but the Council were unable to
accede to their requests.
Scarlet Fever.—There was a very considerable reduction in
the number of cases from this disease; 990 cases were notified, being
628 less than in 1909, equivalent to an attack-rate of 3.4 per 1,000,
the average attack-rate for the preceding ten years 1900-1909 being
4.5 per 1,000. Nineteen deaths occurred, making an annual deathrate
of 0.06 per 1,000, the average death-rate for the preceding ten
years 1900-1909 being 0.13 per 1,000.
Of the notified cases, 703, or 71 per cent., were removed to
Hospital, an increase of 9 per cent. on the previous year. The
number of cases transferred from Plaistow Hospital to the Convalescent
Home, Harold Wood, during the year was 260, where the
average duration of stay amounted to 40 days.
Diphtheria.—The number of cases of this disease notified
during 1910 was 354, being the smallest number notified in any one
year since 1891. The attack-rate was 1.12 per 1,000, the average
attack-rate during the past 10 years being 2.7 per 1,000.