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Deaths from Influenza during the year 1891.
25th April 2
2nd May 6
9th „ 15
16th „ 13
23rd „ 32
30th „ 20
6th June 12
13th „ 11
20th June 10
27th „ 6
4th July 2
11th „ 2
25th „ 2
15th August 2
29th „ 1
5th September 1
26th September 1
31st October 1
28th November 1
5th December 1
2nd January 3
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I have often been asked by members as to the relative
frequency of various infectious diseases. I thought that a table,
shewing the number of cases removed to the Asylums Board in
every month would not only afford this, but shew when each disease
had reached its culminating point in the year. In Hackney,
scarlet fever was very prevalent in November, far more so than in
any other parish, the next in order of frequency being Bethnal
Green. Indeed, allowing for difference in population, the number
for scarlet fever was greatest in Bethnal Green. The greatest
number of cases occurred in November in Hackney, in October in
Islington, Shoreditch, and Bethnal Green, and January in Poplar.
Diphtheria was most prevalent in Hackney in October and November;
in Islington in September and October; in Shoreditch in
January, October and November; in Bethnal Green in February
and August; in Poplar in October. Typhoid was most prevalent
in Hackney during August, owing to a rather extensive outbreak
in Dalston in that month; in Islington in October; in Shoreditch
in September; in Bethnal Green and Poplar in October. The
figures shew that enteric (typhoid) not only is so markedly
prevalent in any one month, but that a small outbreak makes itself
known immediately by increasing the mortality above the average.