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Hospital, will be found in Tables Nos. 5 & 6, and a full account
of the infectious diseases which have been notified during the year
in Deptford, will be found in Table No. 7.
Table No. 8 gives the analysis of the vital and mortal
statistics of thirty-three of the largest English towns during the
year 1897, showing among other particulars the statistics of the
deaths from the principal Zymotic diseases, and Table No. 9 shows
the analysis of the vital and mortal statistics of the sanitary districts
of the Metropolis during the year 1897.
Small Pox. Only one case was notified, a female, aged 38,
residing in Junction Road, and employed in Trothy Road, Bermondsey.
She was immediately removed to the Floating Hospital,
where she afterwards died.
Scarlet Fever. Of this disease 632 cases were notified in
my district, as against 759 for the preceding year. Eight deaths
were recorded in the district, and 69 in the Metropolitan Asylum
Board's Hospital; of these six were parishioners. In the previous
year 15 were recorded in the district, and 73 in the hospital.
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. There were 473
cases notified during the year, as against 431 and 636 for the two
preceding years. Twenty-five deaths occurred in the two parishes,
and 123 were registered in the South-Eastern Metropolitan
Asylum Board's Hospital; of these 7 were parishioners. In the
year 1896 there were 146 deaths in the Hospital, and 44 in the
district.
Fever. This term includes Typhoid or Enteric, Typhus,
Simple or Continued, and ill-defined forms of Fever, to which 11
deaths were attributed in the district during the year ; 36 deaths
were registered in the Hospital, of these 3 were parishioners; and
114 cases were notified under the Public Health (London) Act,
1891. For the year 1896, 86 cases were reported, whilst 12 deaths
were registered in the district, and 30 in the Hospital.