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Borough, with that in some other districts, 1 have abstracted
the following figures from the Quarterly Reports for 1911 of the
Local Government Board, taking for comparison, London,
Croydon, and three residential suburbs, as in my last Report.
PROPORTION TO POPULATION OF CASES OF
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Cases per 1,000.
London 5.27
Croydon 6.54
Beckenham 4.73
Bromley 4.30
Wimbledon 5.31
Ealing 4.74
Croydon and the three suburbs named were chosen, merely
as being most suitable for comparison, but it is satisfactory
to record that Bromley has shown the lowest proportion of
cases for the last three years.
SCARLET FEVER.
Of the 90 cases of Scarlet Fever, 8 occurred in persons over
14 years of age, and 82 in children below that age .
In the former class, 4 were adults who had been working
out of Bromley in the few days preceding the onset of the
illness. Another adult caught the disease from her child.
Three cases were in young persons; one was contracted out of
the district, another occurred in a private school with others
to be mentioned later on, and one was untraced.