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The mortality from diphtheria was largely in excess of the
average of the past 10 years (see Tables VI. and VII.), but even
Chelsea's figure for the past year is greatly below Chelsea's proportion
of the total diphtheria deaths in London, showing that there
must have been many districts in London which suffered more
severely from this disease in 1893 than did our own parish.
Scarlet fever was very prevalent from early in the summer of
1893 until the close of the year, but notwithstanding this prevalence,
and the fact that very many cases had to be refused admission to
the Metropolitan Asylums Board Fever Hospitals, thus multiplying
centres for the diffusion of infection in the various quarters of the
parish, the mortality from this disease has been quite moderate in
amount.
Diarrhoea mortality continues to be somewhat excessive in
Chelsea as compared with all London. The hot, dry, summer
of the past year was, however, favourable to acute summer
diarrhoea and choleraic attacks, and the failure of Asiatic cholera to
establish a hold in London during the past autumn is reassuring,
considering the many conditions favouring its then introduction.
Except for measles, the zymotic mortality of Chelsea in 1893
was in excess of the average of the preceding nine years (1884-92.)