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the average death-rate during the past five years being 0.15 per
1,000. The fatality or ratio of deaths to attacks was 11.2 per cent.
Of the 445 cases notified, 390, or 87.0 per cent., were removed to
Hospital.
Enteric Fever.—Only 67 cases of this disease were notified
during 1914 compared with 75 during the preceding year, and 90
during 1912. This number is equivalent to an annual attack-rate of
0.22 per 1,000, the average attack-rate during the previous five
years being 0.33 per 1,000. Thirteen deaths occurred, making an
annual death-rate of 0.04 per 1,000, the average death-rate for the
years 1909-1913 being 0.05 per 1,000. The fatality rate was 19.4 per
cent. Fifty-three cases out of the 67 were removed to Hospital,
equivalent to 79.1 per cent.
Besides the admission into Plaistow Hospital of cases of the
three preceding diseases, the mixed and other cases received during
the year were as follows :—
Re-admitted cases 3
Diphtheria and Measles 8
„ „ Scarlet Fever 6
Scarlet Fever and Whooping Cough 2
Measles and Whooping Cough 2
Chicken Pox 3
Erysipelas 4
Measles 10
Whooping Cough 1
Diphtheritic Conjunctivitis 1
Making a total of 40
Measles.—The number of cases reported by the School
Attendance Officers was 1,890, as against 472 during the previous
year. The deaths numbered 134, making an annual death-rate of 0.45