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The rise and fall of the disease is shown week by week on the
accompanying charts.
The schools attended by affected children are shown later, but no
school has been much affected. In the early part of the year several
families, the children of whom have been attending St. Gabriel's
Day or Sunday School, wore affected. Probably this arose from a
mild undetected case. In one family a child was notified on the
10th' February, and it was then reported that two other children had
sore throats, but the medical attendant did not feel justified in notifying
them as scarlet fever until they began to peel. One case notified
followed somewhat closely the return from the fever hospital of an
elder sister.
There were four deaths, giving a low mortality rate, as shown below.
In the whole year, 84 of the 248 cases were in Victoria Ward,
57 in St. John's; 4 were fatal, 1 being in the former and 3 in the
latter Ward. The death rate for London was 0'04 per 1,000, the fiveyearly
average being 0.11.

Diphtheria.—From the subjoined table it will be seen that the
cases of diphtheria in Westminster were fairly spread over the twelve
months. Table XV shows that Victoria, St. Margaret, and St. John
Wards again suffered most, there being more persons at a susceptible
age in these wards.