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The Compulsory Notification of Infectious Diseases has been in
force in this District since the 1st of January, 1890, and under the
Act the following cases have been reported during the year—
Scarlet Fever 530 in 1895, 420
Diphtheria 95 ,, 89
Typhoid Fever 34 ,, 46
Puerperal Fever 5 ,, 4
Erysipelas 39 ,, 45
Continued Fever 1 ,, 2
Membranous Croup 1 ,, 4 and
Small Pox 4 ,,5
709 615
The number 709 compares with 615 for 1895, 410 for 1894, 618
for 1893, 340 for 1892, 349 for 1891, and 240 for 1890.
82 cases were reported in the first quarter of the year,
174 ,, „ ,, second ,, ,,
270 „ „ „ third „ „
183 „ „ „ fourth „ „
709
Scarlet Fever shows an increase of 110 cases over 1895. As will
be seen, it increased from 40 cases in the first to 139 in the second, and
reached its maximum in the third quarter, when 214 cases were reported,
decreasing in the fourth quarter to 137. This disease was most prevalent
in the Hornsey Ward, and, in order to check it as far as possible, a
house-to-house inspection was made of the portion of the District from
which the majority of the cases were reported, and other means taken
to arrest its progress, and I think I cannot do better than add to this
Report a verbatim statement of my remarks laid before the Council in
the second quarterly report to the following effect:—
" The spread of this disease is, I believe, to a large extent to
be accounted for by the mildness of the cases, which have been in
several instances not notified until desquamation had set in and
had consequently been the means of extending the infection.