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With regard to Measles, how do we stand ? The mortality from
this disease in the quarter for the Metropolis was 231. The Western
districts suffering most, Central districts next, then the Northern,
then the Eastern much less, and last of all the Southern. There
were but 24 deaths from this disease to the latter district. We escaped
altogether, having no fatal case.
With Scarlatina the Eastern and Southern districts were most
severely attacked, the former somewhat in excess of the latter.
Taking the Southern population, the deaths being 294, that is 1 in
2097. In Bermondsey the deaths were 15, which is 1 in 3208. I
am sorry we had any, still that is not unsatisfactory. We suffered
considerably less than St. George's, the deaths there were 19; less
than Newington or Lambeth; less even than the suburban districts
of Clapham, Battersea, Wandsworth, Putney or Streatham.
With Plumstead, Lee, Lewisham and Sydenham, as regards the
prevalence of Scarlatina, let it be especially recorded, that taking the
deaths as a criterion, and although a melancholy it is the best test,
that whereas Bermondsey lost one of its population out of every
3208; this district presumed to be favorable to health, to which
many of our inhabitants have usually fled, lost 1 in 1204.—Comment
is unnecessary.
Taking some of the Northern districts, I will illustrate by St.
Pancras and Marylebone, in one of these large divisions of the
Metropolis the deaths were 1 in 2618, and in the other, St. Pancras,
which includes Regent's Park, Kentish, Camden and Somers Towns,
are 1 in 3199.
Islington West, including as it does the Fever Hospital, it is
unfair to mention. But with Islington East, we compare very
favorably.
The City of London was comparatively speaking very little affected.
Patent reasons account in a great degree for this exception.
Some of the Eastern districts suffered very severely. St. George's
in the East, with a population to about the same extent, and in
some respects of a similar character to ours, lost 50, or more than
three times our mortality.
Shoreditch, Hoxton, Haggerstone, Shadwell and Ratcliffe, all
suffered to a far greater extent than Bermondsey, Bow and Poplar
rather less.
It is unnecessary to go into any details or comparative Tables as