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registered in London during last year showed a marked decline from
the number in the preceding year, and were less than half the
average; of these 89 cases, 29 belonged to Marylebone, 8 to St.
Pancras, 5 to Bethnal Green, 4 to Mile End Old Town, and 10 to
Poplar sanitary areas. During the year under notice, 1,234 smallpox
patients were admitted into the Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals,
and 16 remained"under treatment at the end of the year. Measles
showed the highest proportional fatality in Fulham, Limehouse,
Mile End Old Town, Poplar, St. Saviour Southwark, St. George
Southwark, and St. Olave Southwark ; scarlet fever in Whitechapel,.
St-George-in the East, Limehouse, Mile End Old Town, Greenwich,,
and Woolwich ; diphtheria in Paddington, Fulham, Bethnal Green,.
St. George-in-the-East, Limehouse, Mile End Old Town, St. George
Southwark, Bermondsey, and Camberwell; whooping-cough in St.
Giles, Strand, Shoreditch, Whitechapel, and St. George-in-the-East
" fever " in St. James Westminster and Strand ; and diarrhoea in
St. Luke, St. George-in-the-East, Mile End Old Town, St. George
Southwark, and Rotherhithe sanitary areas. The number of scarlet
fever patients in the Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals, which had
been 2,872 at the beginning of 1894, was 1,865, at the end of
December last; 11,767 new cases were admitted during 1894,
equal to a weekly average of 226 throughout the year. There were
4,128 admissions of diphtheria patients into these hospitals during
1894, and 521 remained under treatment at the end of the year ;
and there were also 675 admissions of enteric fever patients during
the same period, of whom 104 remained at the end of December last.
Infant mortality in London during 1894, measured by the
proportion of deaths under one year of age to registered births, was
equal to 143 per 1,000, and was below the mean proportion in the
ten preceding years. While the rate of infant mortality did not
exceed 86 in Stoke Newington, 94 in Lee and in Plumstead, 113 in
Hampstead, 114 in Wandsworth, and 115 in St. George Hanover
Square. It ranged upwards in the other sanitary areas to 174 in
Limehouse, 179 in Strand, 180 in Holborn, 185 in St. George-in-the-
East, 186 in St. George Southwark, and 210 in St. Martin-in-the-
Fields.