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willing to do this, a supply with full directions as to use, will be sent
to you directly the emergency may be expected to arise, from the
laboratory at the Examination Hall of the Royal College of Physicians
and the Royal College of Surgeons, Victoria Embankment, W.C.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) T. DUNCOMBE MANN,
Clerk to the Board.
To Dr. S. R. Lovett,
Medical Officer of Health,
Bloomsbury.
I replied to this communication expressing my
willingness to accede to the request.
5.—Whooping Cough (decennial average 18.2).
Of the 18 deaths from it in 1897, 10 were infants under
1 year, and 7 between 1 and 5 years. Both whoopingcough
and measles are practically epidemic every two
years. The poor, as a rule, consider them trivial, and
necessary diseases of childhood, consequently the doctor is
seldom consulted about them until serious symptoms set in.

Continued fevers include "typhus", "simple continued"
and "typhoid."
In 1897, all the cases notified were of the enteric or
typhoid form.
Of tne 31 cases reported, 6 were fatal,