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Five notifications of infectious diseases were received.
They included—scarlet fever 1, diphtheria 1, erysipelas
2, and typhoid fever 1.
I have visited the child at 92 Galleywall Road, which
was certified to he suffering from smallpox by the Medical
Officer of the Rotherhithe Cottage Hospital. The child
was removed to the hospital on the day the certificate
was received—February 23rd —and it being found not
to be suffering from smallpox the child was re-vaccinated
and sent home. The re-vaccination was not successful,
and no smallpox has appeared within three weeks. There
are three large marks of original vaccination on the
child's arm. I have no doubt the case was one of chicken
pox. On the day of my visit there were two other children
in the same house who were recovering from a mild
attack of that disease.
28th March, 1898.
During the week that ended on the 19th day of March
51 births and 20 deaths were registered in the parish,
indicating an annual birth rate of 31.1, and an annual
rate of mortality of 12.1 per thousand of the estimated
population. The corresponding death rate in London was
21.6. The deaths included 5 of children under one year
of age, 6 of persons upwards of 60 years of age, and 8 of
parishioners dying in outlying public institutions. The
inclusion of the latter raises the parish death rate to 17.0.
There was only one death from zymotic disease, which
was from whooping cough.