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greatest possible distance from any house, school, or public
road, I do not think that any nuisance is likely to arise
requiring the action of the Vestry under the Public Health
Act.
October 2nd, 1893.
During the fortnight that ended on the 23rd day of
September 128 births and 45 deaths were registered in the
parish. These numbers indicate an annual birth-rate of
39.2, and an annual rate of mortality of 13.8 per thousand of
the estimated population. The corresponding death-rate in
London was 18.2.
Diseases of the zymotic class caused 8 deaths, viz.:
measles 2, scarlet fever 1, diphtheria 1, whooping cough 2,
and diarrhæa 2.
From diseases of the respiratory organs there were 11
deaths, from tubercular diseases 7, and from old age 3.
The number of deaths of children under one year of age
was 16, and of persons aged 60 years and upwards 7.
One inquest was held. The death was attributed to an
accidental fall. Four deaths were uncertified.
The number of notifications of cases of infectious disease
received from the 18th to 29th September was 48, viz.: of
scarlet fever 27, diphtheria 11, erysipelas 8, typhoid fever
1, and membranous croup 1.
The Metropolitan Asylum and London Fever Hospitals
contained 2,848 scarlet fever patients at the end of the
week (September 23rd), against 2,889 on the previous
Saturday. The figures for the hospitals represent patients
certified on admission to be suffering from scarlet fever,
diphtheria, or enteric fever respectively, but in a considerable
proportion of cases the diagnosis is found, after sojourn
in the hospital, to have been erroneous.
The London County Council deeming it important that
every facility should be given at the present time for determining
the precise nature of the illness of persons
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