[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Maidstone U.D.C. / Borough.

Maidstone (England). Urban District Council.

Date:: 1900

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Credit: [Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Maidstone U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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SMALL POX. TOTAL NOTIFIABLE ZYMOTICS. Qnarter. 1891. 1892. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900. Previous 9 Years average. 1st. 33 53 66 106 45 30 67 62 126 40 65 2nd .... 14 41 168 46 24 27 61 39 79 35 55 3rd .... 20 40 156 54 41 28 1370 99 64 21 208 4th. 31 73 183 42 72 63 647 118 99 48 147 Year .... 98 207 573 248 182 148 2145 318 368 144 475 From the first Table it will be observed that with¬ out exception there has been a diminution in the number of notifications of each of the notifiable diseases, as compared with the average of the previous 9 years. From the last Table it will be noted that the total decrease is as 144 is to 475, and also that the diminution has occurred in each of the four quarters. If now we omit from our calculations the large number of notifications of Enteric Fever, viz. 1,884, due to the epidemic of the year 1897, as being alto¬ gether an exceptional occurrence, we find that the previous 9 years average—this being the whole time the Notification Act has been in force in Maidstone— was 265 against 144 received this year.