HH62/2/RENFRE/83

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23 cases of Diphtheria were reported between May 15th and De-
cember 31st; the death-rate for the whole year was at the rate of
3·2 per ten thousand of the population.
207 cases of Scarlet Fever were notified after the 15th of May, and
the death-rate for the year was 2·6 per ten thousand.
47 cases of Enteric Fever were notified, of which 9 were from Neil-
ston, and 9 from Eaglesham. The death-rate was as high as 3·2 per
ten thousand, a very unsatisfactory circumstance, indeed.
The Local Authority accepted (and paid for) such notifications of
Measles as were received during the year, although that disease was
not compulsorily notifiable. As a matter of fact, the cases notified
were almost entirely confined to the village of Inkermann, in which
the disease was violently epidemic in the course of the summer. 72
cases were notified from the village, and no fewer than 15 deaths
were recorded. The death-rate from Measles over the whole District
was as high as 8·4 per ten thousand.
Whooping-cough was the certified cause of 17 deaths, yielding a
death-rate of 4·9 per ten thousand.
The death-rate from Diarrhœa was as high as 5·7; of the 20 deaths
out of which this death-rate arose, 16 were of children under five
years of age - victims for the most part to the filth-polluted precincts
of their village homes.
The following table furnishes an analyses of the social conditions,

Classification of Cases of Infectious Disease
according to size of house.

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as indicated by the size of the house, amidst which the cases of infectious
disease notified from the 15th May to 31st December arose, from
which it will be observed that 78 per cent. of the cases occurred in
houses of three rooms and under, - in other words, under circum-
stances which rendered any attempt at efficient isolation impracticable.
The succeeding table shows how far our attempts at securing

Proportion of Cases of Infectious Disease removed
to Hospital

[Table inserted]

hospital isolation were successful; we have reason to be fairly well
satisfied with what has been done, especially that we have been able
to secure the removal to hospital of 37·7 per cent. of the cases of
Scarlet Fever - the common zymotic most susceptible to control by
means of hospital isolation.
The subjoined table illustrates the complicated character of the
situation in respect of hospital accommodation during the year.

Hospital Isolation during the year.

[Table inserted]