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fever showed the highest proportional fatality in Strand,
Clerkenwell, Whitechapel, St. George-in-the-East, and
Limehouse sanitary areas; 11,411 scarlet fever patients
were admitted into the Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals
during 1895, and 2,708 remained under treatment at the
end of December last. Diphtheria caused the highest
proportional fatality in Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, St.
George in-the-East, Limehouse, Mile End Old Town,
Poplar, Botherhithe, Camberwell, and Greenwich sanitary
area. There were 4,459 admissions of diphtheria patients
into the Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals during the last
year, and 687 remained at the end of December. Whooping
cough was proportionally most fatal in Clerkenwell, St.
Luke, Shoreditch, Limehouse, St. George Southwark, and
Newington; enteric fever in City of London and Plumstead
; and diarrhoea in St. Luke, Shoreditch, Bethnal
Green, St. George-in-the-East, Mile End Old Town, St.
George Southwark, and St. Olave Southwark sanitary areas.
Infant mortality in London during 1895, measured by the
proportion of deaths under 1 year of age to registered
births, was equal to 165 per 1,000, and exceeded by 16 per
1,000 the average rate in the ten preceding year3. While
the rate of infant mortality did not exceed 116 in Stoke
Newington, 132 in Wandsworth, 133 in Plumstead, 135 in
Hampstead and in Lewisham, and 138 in St. George
Hanover Square and in Marylebone, it ranged upwards in
the other sanitary areas to 201 in Newington, 202 in Limehouse,
205 in St. Saviour Southwark, 206 in St. Olave
Southwark, 212 in Holborn, and 265 in St. Martin-in-theFields.