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solution (1 in 1,000), and cleansing the walls and furniture
with bread. Diphtheria seems to be favoured by the dampness
of dwellings, and also by the absence of light. The
organisms develop well in milk, the sale of this commodity
should therefore be carefully supervised. The diseases
which resemble diphtheria, affecting pigeons, fowls, calves
and pigs, are not to be feared as sources of the human
affection. (Professor Loftier, of Greisswald.)
6. Fever (includes enteric or typhoid, typhus, simple
continued, relapsing and ill-defined forms of Fever), (decennial
average 11.2). 30 cases of fever were notified during
the year ; of these 10 were fatal, all adults.
The District was again free from typhus.
The Asylums Board received into their fever hospitals
from the several parishes in the Metropolis, 588 enteric
fever patients, of whom 93 died, showing a mortality of 20.1
per cent., and 24 typhus fever patients, of whom 5 died, or
26.5 per cent.
The deaths in London ascribed to these several forms of
fever were far below the average
7. Diarrhcea (decennial average 31.1). The 22 deaths,
5 adults and 17 children, were below the average ; this low
fatality was largely due to the cold and wet which prevailed
during the summer months, the temperature in June, July
and August having been considerably below the average.
At the end of August a parishioner, set. 55, died from
an attack of English cholera (cholera nostras) after an illness
of 18 hours; the symptoms closely resembled those of
Asiatic cholera, viz., vomiting, purging, with rice water
evacuations, cramp, blueness and coldness of the extremities.
1 was informed that the illness was probably caused or