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"the large proportion of deaths from this disease belonging to the
children of the working classes."
Whooping Cough, like Measles, during some seasons is slight, at
other times, severe; and very frequently dangerous symptoms creep
insidiously on before the family is aware, and often before medical aid
is sought.
Many persons believe that medical remedies are of little avail,
and that the disease will run its course "until May arrives," one of
those nursery savings which it seems impossible to get rid of.

Both the sick and death lists from Fever show a much more
satisfactory state of things than in 1874, when 113 patients were
sent to Stockwell Hospital from this District (of which 37 cases
were Typhus), and the deaths from Fever during the year were 54.
(For the number of deaths from Fever in each year from 1865,
vide Table No. 13).
The marked improvement in the Health of the District is to be
connected with the efforts of the Board in enforcing Sanitary Arrangements.
Diarrhœa.—The mortality from this disease was 53 against 59
in 1874. The mean number for 10 years is 78.
Our deaths, like those of last year, were below the average, and
may be accounted for by the low temperature of the summer
months.
Deaths from Pulmonary Diseases.
Bronchitis was again the most fatal disease in the District
during the year, and it carried off no less than 260 persons.
The cold weather and heavy rain-fall during a greater portion
of the season might have been the principal causes in this heavy
death-rate, but, without these causes, there are influences enough in
the District to produce a heavy death-rate without them. A large
number of poor people reside in the District, and live badly both in
quality and quantity, and whose homes, as a rule, are cold and comfortless,
who, to make up for these deficiencies, frequently indulge
in the habit of excessive spirit-drinking ; it is among these that the