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The eastern group of districts had the highest diarrhoea death rate during the year, viz.:
1.10 per 1,000 living, and the northern group the lowest (0.69). Among the several metropolitan
boroughs Fulham and Shoreditch had the highest death rate (1.31) and the City the lowest
(0.30). The diarrhœa death rates in London in the four quarters of the year 1901 were as
follows—first quarter, 0.16; second quarter, 0.19; third quarter, 2.77; and fourth quarter 0.32
per 1,000 living.
It needs to be stated that the above figures and diagram relate only to deaths which are
classified by the Registrar-General under the heading "diarrhoea." There is no question that
alteration in nomenclature is largely affecting the number of deaths in London classified under
this heading, the increasing use of the terms "enteritis" and "gastro-enteritis," as shown by
the reports of the Registrar-General, leading to the registration of deaths under these headings
which in earlier years would have been classified with " diarrhoea."
Cholera.
During the year 1901 three persons were certified to be suffering from cholera, one in
Fulham, one in Hackney and one in Lambeth.
Inquiry into each of these cases showed that none of them could be regarded as cases
of Asiatic cholera.
The number of deaths attributed to cholera and choleraic diarrhoea was 43, of these
deaths, 29 occurred among children under one year of age.
Erysipelas.
The deaths from erysipelas registered in the administrative county of London during 1901
(52 weeks) numbered 171; the corrected annual average of the preceding ten years was 235.
The number of cases notified and the number of deaths registered from this disease since
1890 have been as follows—

1 See footnote (2), page 9.