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wark, 4.9 in Clerkenwell and in St. George-in-the-East, and 5.6 in
St. Luke. Compared with the preceding year, the mortality from
measles and whooping-cough showed a decline, while that from each
of the other principal zymotic diseases showed a marked increase.
The 186 fatal cases of small-pox registered in London during last
year exceeded those recorded in any year since 1885; during the
preceding six years only 59 deaths from small-pox of London
residents had been registered. Of the 186 fatal cases last year, 13
belonged to Rotherhithe, 13 to Greenwich, 12 to Poplar, 12 to
Battersea, 11 to Camberwell, and 10 to Kensington sanitary districts.
During the year under notice 2,481 small-pox patients were admitted
into the Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals, and 82 remained under
treatment at the end of December last. Measles showed the highest
proportional fatality in Pancras, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, Shoreditch,
Bethnal Green, St. George-in-the-East, and Greenwich; scarlet
fever in Strand, St. Luke, Limehouse, Poplar, and St. George Southwark;
diphtheria in Strand, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, Shoreditch,
Bethnal Green, St. George-in-the-East, Limehouse, Poplar, Bermondsey,
Battersea, and Plumstead; whooping-cough in Clerkenwell,
St. Luke."