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Notification of Diseases—289.
Small-pox.
No case.
Scarlet Fever
The were 198 eases of Scarlet Fever notified
and two deaths. Twenty-seven of the cases were
at the Thurrocks and occurred at different times,
two deaths. Fifty-nine of the cases occurred at
Tilbury Docks. Seven at the Ockendons. Three
at Aveley and Stifford. Sixty-seven at Stanford-leHope.
Twenty-nine at Mucking and Corringham.
Five at Horndon-on-the-Hill and Laindon Hills
and one at Orsett. The disease was everywhere of
a very mild type.
During the past year cases of Scarlet Fever have
only been taken into Hospital when there appeared
to be a special reason for the removal, snch as
(a) Severe case requiring extra nursing.
(b) Mother recently or about to be confined.
(c) Overcrowding and bad Isolation.
(d) Cases at Milk Shops, &c.
Stanford-le-Hope School and the School at
Kynoch Town, were closed for three or four days
and disinfected because cases were found in the
Schools peeling. No effect in abating the epidemic
appeared in either case.
Diphtheria
There were 55 cases of Diphtheria notified and
fourteen deaths. Seventeen cases at Chadwell-St.Mary
(Docks), seven deaths. Four at Mucking
and Corringham, two deaths. Nineteen at the
Thurrocks, four deaths. One at Horndon-on-theHill.
Ten at Orsett, no death. One at Stanfordle-Hope,
one death. Three at Stifford, no death.
The first case of Diphtheria at Orsett occurred
in a cottage on the Heath where the water had been
condemned, and a notice fixed, the previous day.