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The number of cases of small-pox under treatment on
Saturday, October 7th, in the hospitals was 79, against
112, 91, and 77 on the preceding three Saturdays.
The Metropolitan Asylum and London Fever Hospitals
contained 2,801 scarlet fever patients against 2,889, 2,849
and 2,815 on the preceding three Saturdays. The
deaths from diphtheria which had been 65, 88, and 96 in
the preceding three weeks fell again last week to 74, but
exceeded the corrected average by 43.
The deaths from diarrhœa, which had been 118, 95, and
87 in the preceding three weeks, further fell last week to
52, being 9 below the corrected average. One death in each
of the last two weeks was referred to cholera or choleraic
diarrhœa. I am informed that an inmate of Greenwich
Workhouse visited a house in Princes Road on October
10th. On enquiry at the house I found that no inmate of
the house has since suffered from diarrhœal disease.
In order to meet the requirements of the Local Government
Board I have divided the map of the parish into
twenty sections, and have advised the Sanitary Inspector to
institute a house to house visitation throughout those parts
of the parish where cholera was most prevalent on former
visitations of that disease. I have every reason to believe
that the parish is in a very good sanitary condition, but it
is well known that defects in the drainage and water supply
apparatus are continually occurring, and that these defects
are not complained of by the tenants, but have to be discovered
by the sanitary officers. It is therefore desirable
that a prompt and rapid inspection should be made to
discover any weak points which may exist,
The ward in Botherhithe Infirmary which, last year, was
set apart for cholera cases in now full of ordinary patients,
and consequently no special provision against cholera in
this district is, at the present moment, in existence.
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