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accidents outside Hackney were not included in the above figures.
The number of deaths in Stoke Newington was 5 below the number
for 1890, viz., 440; for Stamford Hill much below, having been
235 only; but it must be noticed that the total number registered
was more than 100 below that for 1890, and consequently the
number for all the sub-districts is smaller than before.

Although the Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, 1890,
enables the occupiers of rooms in which infectious diseases have
been, to require the Board to disinfect the premises and contained
articles, yet very few requests have been made. There have not
been so many applications as in previous years, and the whole of
these disinfections have been done in consequence of deaths, or of
certificates from the medical attendants of the families infected.
It will be seen that the number of houses and articles therein is
much in excess of those done before 1890, when the Infectious
Diseases Prevention Act was passed, yet in 1891 there were fewer
requests made.
At present the disinfecting apparatus, which evolves dry heat,
and is in fact an oven, is altogether behind the requirements of the
district if an epidemic of scarlet fever, diphtheria, or small pox
should break out. It is universally admitted now that the quickest