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Children's Hospital, Paddington
Infants' Hospital, Vincent Square 1
St. Peter's Hospital 1
London Fever Hospital 1
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Deaths, 124. Death-rate, 2 25.
The so called Zymotic death-rate includes deaths from seven
Zymotic diseases, Small-pox, Measles, Whooping Cough, Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria, "fever ' and Diarrhœa.
The district was entirely free of Small-pox and the other diseases
are dealt with separately.
MEASLES.
In 1908,38 deaths were registered as due 10 Measles and 37 of
these occurred in the months of March, April, May and June.
In the Annual Report for 1906, an attempt was made to trace
briefly the history of the disease during the last quarter of a century.
The experience of Acton has been somewhat similar to that of the
whole of England and Wales. Daring the third quarter of the
last century, there was a decided improvement, but this was followed
by a serious rise towards the end of the century. In Acton the
improvement was noticed up to the year 1885, but since that date,
the means adopted for the prevention of Measles have not had the
effect of steadily and continuously reducing the death-rate. An
epidemic has made its appearance almost every second year, and the
district has been visited by an epidemic causing a death-rate of
more than 50 per 1,000 inhabitants at intervals of 4, 3, 4. 6, 4 and 2
years respectively.