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Parish of Wandsworth. 113
Eight cases of smallpox were notified as compared
with none in 1891, and with the exception of scarlet
fever and enteric fever, the others show a decrease.
Diphtheria shows a marked decrease, only 60 cases
having been notified, compared with 110 in 1894, and
154. in 1893. The annual rate per 1,000 persons living
of notified cases was in this sub-district 1.2, while in
London this rate was 2 6.
Again for this district the annual rate per 1,000 for
all notifiable diseases was 7.6, while in London the rate
was 9.5. 79 of the notified cases occurred in the various
public institutions in the district; three of smallpox,
29 of scarlet fever, two of diphtheria, one of enteric
fever, and 28 of erysipelas in the workhouse; five of
erysipelas in the Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, and one
of erysipelas in the. prison.
The total number of deaths was 31, or 6 9 per cent.
of the cases notified, as compared with 10.36 in 1894,
and 8.8 per cent. in 1893.
The number of the several diseases, the number of
patients sent to hospital, and the number of deaths
occurring in hospital, as well as in the sub-district arc
given in the following table:—
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