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districts the rates ranged upwards to 25.2 in Holborn, 25.3
in Strand, 25.4 in St. George Southwark, 25.5 in St. Saviour
Southwark, 27.3 in Limehouse, 29.5 in St. George-in-theEast,
and 30.2 in St. Luke.
During the year under notice 11,466 deaths resulted from the
principal zymotic diseases in London; of these, 3,574 were
referred to diarrhoea, 2,628 to measles, 2,289 to diphtheria,
1,480 to whooping cough, 829 to scarlet fever, 611 to different
forms of "fever" (including5 to typhus, 596 to enteric
fever, and 10 to simple and ill-defined forms of fever), and
55 to small pox. These 11,466 deaths were equal to an
annual rate of 2.6 per 1,000 against 2.8, 3.0, arid 2.6 in the
three preceding years; this rate was slightly below the
average rate in the ten years 1885-94, which was 2.7 per
1,000. In the various sanitary areas the rates ranged from
l.0 in Hampstead, 11 in Stoke Newington, 1.3 in St. James
Westminster and in Wandsworth, 1.4 in Lee, and l.5 in
Lewisham, to 3.4 in Bethnal Green and in Newington, 3.8
in Shoreditch, 3.9 in Clerkenwell and in Mile End Old
Town, 4.0 in Poplar, 4.6 in Limehouse, and 5.5 in St. Luke
and in St. George-in-the-East. Compared with the averages
in the ten preceding years, the mortality from small
pox, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, and "fever"
was below the average, while that from diphtheria and
and from diarrhoea showed an excess. The 55 fatal cases
of small pox registered in London last year showed a further
decline from the numbers recorded in the two preceding
years, and included 9 which belonged to Marylebone, 7
to Camberwell, 4 to Bethnal Green, 4 to Whitechapel, 4 to
Newington, and 3 to Greenwich sanitary areas. During
the year under notice 1,018 cases of small pox were admitted
into the Metropolitan Asylum Hospitals, and 75 remained
under treatment at the end of the year. Measles caused
the highest proportionate fatality in Holborn, Clerkenwell,
St. Luke, Whitechapel, St. George-in-the-East, Limehouse,
Poplar, Newington and Bermondsey sanitary areas. Scarlet