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Of 169 cases amongst children under five years of age, 61 terminated fatally, or
36.0 per cent. as compared with 31.8 per cent. in 1896, 47.5 per cent. in 1895, 43 per
cent. in 1894, and 61.8 per cent. in 1893. Of 192 cases amongst persons aged 5 years
and upwards, 19 terminated fatally, or 9.9 percent. as compared with 12.8 per cent.
in 1896 7.0 per cent. in 1895, 11.5 per cent. in 1894, and 11.4 per cent. in 1893. The
nineteen deaths of persons over five years of age, wore all of children aged between
five and fifteen years. The number of children aged between 5 and 15 years, who were
notified as suffering from diphtheria was 119 and the mortality amongst them,
therefore, was 15.9 per cent. None of the 73 cases amongst persons aged 15 years
and upwards terminated fatally.
The diphtheria death-rate for the whole parish was 0.64 per 1,000 inhabitants, as
compared with 0.61 in 1896. The rate was highest in Shoreditch South, and lowest in
the Hoxton New Town registration district. (See Appondix, table XXXII.)
In the following table is shewn the distribution of the cases notified and the deaths amongst males and females in the four sub-districts of the parish:—

The cases of diphtheria notified were at the rate of 2.94 per thousand inhabitants
Of the 361 cases notified in Shoreditch, 242 or 67.0 per cent. wore removed to the
hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. Last year 55 6 per cent. wore so
removed.
The number of cases notified in the Metropolis was 12,803, which gives with the
estimated population an attack-rate of 2.87 per thousand inhabitants during the
year 1897. The deaths in the Metropolis due to diphtheria numbered 2,240, the death-rate being 0.50 per thousand.