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St. James Westminster, St. Marylebone, Strand, Shoreditch,
Bethnal Green, St. George Southwark, and Woolwich
sanitary areas. Scarlet fever was proportionately most
fatal in St. Luke, Shoreditch, St. George-in-the-East, Mile
End Old Town, St. Olave, Southwark, and Plumstead sanitary
areas; 16,271 scarlet fever cases were admitted into
the Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals during 1896, and 3,599
patients remained under treatment at the end of December
last. Diphtheria caused the highest proportional fatality
in Chelsea, Islington, Limehouse, Mile End Old Town.
St. Olive Southwark, Bermondsey, Camberwell, Greenwich,
Lewisham, and Plumstead sanitary areas; there were 5,409
admissions of diphtheria patients into the Metropolitan
Asylum Hospitals during last year, and 829 cases remained
under treatment at the end of December. Whooping-cough
was proportionally most fatal in Shoreditch, Bethnal Green,
Limehouse, Poplar, St. George Southwark, St. Olave Southwark,
and Bermondsey sanitary areas ; enteric fever in St.
Martins-in-the-Fields, Clerkenwell, City of London, and
Rotherhithe sanitary areas; and diarrhœa in Fulham,
Clerkenwell, St. Luke, Shoreditch, St. George-in-the-East,
and St. Olave Southwark sanitary areas.
Infant mortality in London during 1896, measured by the
proportion of deaths under one year of age to registered
births, was equal to 160 per 1,000, and exceeded by 5 per
1,000 the mean rate in the ten preceding years. The
lowest rates of infant mortality did not exceed 123 in
Hampstead, 126 in Stoke Newiugton, 133 in Plumstead,
136 in Lambeth and in Lewisham, and 137 in City of
London; while they ranged upwards in the other sanitary
areas to 179 in Hammersmith, 180 in Shoreditch, 181 in
St. George Southwark, 184 in Clerkenwell and in Newington,
193 in Strand, 194 in Holborn, and 213 in St. Saviour
Southwark.