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in Wandsworth and in Lewisham, and 15.3 in Paddington;
in the other districts the rates arranged upwards to 22.7 in
Strand, 22.8 in St. Saviour Southwark, 22.9 in Limehouse,
23.4 in Holborn, 24.0 in St. George Southwark, 24.5 St.
George-in-the-East, and 25.1 in St. Luke.
During the year under notice 14,009 deaths resulted from
the principal zymotic diseases in London ; of these, 3,692
were referred to measles, 3,192 to diarrhoea, 2,931 to
whooping-cough, 2,663 to diptheria, 940 to scarlet fever,
582 to different forms of " fever " (including 5 to typhus,
564 to enteric fever, and 13 to simple and ill-defined
forms of fever), and 9 to small pox. These 14,009 deaths
were equal to an annual rate of 3.11 per 1,000, against
3.05, 2.64, and 2.62 in the three preceding years; this rate
exceeded by 0.40 per 1,000 the mean rate in the ten years
1886-95, and was higher than the rate recorded in any year
since 1887, when it was also 3.11 per 1,000. In the various
sanitary areas the zymotic death-rates ranged from 1.39 in
St. George Hanover Square, 1.44 in London City, 1.83 in
Hampstead, 1.88 in Lee, 2.15 in Westminster, and 2.24 in
St. James Westminster, to 3.92 in Woolwich, 3.94 in Chelsea,
3.99 in Limehouse, 4.24 in St. George Southwark, 4.25
in Bethnal Green, 4.31 in Shoreditch, and 4.81 in St. Olave
Southwark. Compared with the averages in the ten preceding
years the mortality from small pox, scarlet fever,
and "fever" was below the average, while that from each
of the other zymotic diseases showed an excess. The 9
fatal cases of small pox registered in London last year
showed a further decline from the numbers recorded in the
three preceding years, and included 2 which belonged to
Lambeth, 2 to Greenwich, and 1 each to Paddington,
Islington, Holborn, Shoreditch, and Newington, sanitary
areas. During the year under notice 236 cases of small
pox were admitted into the Metropolitan Asylums Hospital,
and only 3 remained under treatment at the end of the
year. Measles caused the highest proportional fatality in