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laws to find that the warmer season of 1880 was
attended with results of an opposite character. The
epidemic of whooping cough, which accounted for 225
deaths in 1878, and for 98 deaths in 1879, continued
to prevail during the first half of the past year; 85
deaths from this cause were registered during the first
two quarters, 3 in the third quarter, and 6 in the last,
making a total of 94. Scarlet fever, which had caused
102 deaths in 1879, produced the same number in the
past year. Diarrhœa caused 125 deaths, against 45 in
the previous year, and a five years' average of 77. —Of
this number 102 occurred in the summer quarter and
23 in the remaining portions of the year. Measles prevailed
during the last quarter, when there were 38
deaths in a total of 46 The deaths from Small-Pox
were 3, of which one took place in each district, all
were children under 5 years of age, and unvaccinated.
The proportion of deaths from this disease was 1 in
28,700 persons living, and less than 1 in every 500
deaths.
The general mortality from all causes compares
very favourably with that of the Metropolis generally,
with the South London districts, and with most of the
large English Towns. Our number of deaths from the
chief diseases of the zymotic class, and in children
under 5 years of age, may appear large, but our proporation
of children living at that age, according to the