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a part, be corrected by adding their deaths in hospitals and other public
institutions, it will be found that their death-rate was 20.6 against 26.6 per
1000 in the previous year. Thus it appears that our death-rate was 2.04
above the general death-rate (17.8) of the whole of London, and 0.66
lower than the corrected death-rate of all the central districts for the year
1894. This death-rate of 19.84 is the lowest we have had for many years,
and the Board and its Sanitary Department may be congratulated on the
resalt.
There was a considerable decrease (Table II.) in the number of deaths—
99 against 131—from measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough,
diarrhœa. and enteric or typhoid fever; but if correction be made by
including deaths of our residents in hospitals outside and excluding those
of non-residents within the district, there were only 81 from these seven
rymotic diseases against 109 in the year 1893—i.e., a decrease of 25.7 per
cent.
The pauper sickness returns for the year ending December 31st, 1894,
(52 weeks), Table III., exhibit a decrease of 508 cases on those of the
preceding year. There is an increase of 1 case of puerperal fever and
38 of whooping cough, a decrease of 1 case of small pox, 16 of chicken pox,
13 of measles. 24 of scarlet fever, 76 of erysipelas, 45 of influenza, 4 of lead
poisoning, and 59 of pneumonia, 33 cases of diarrhœa, and 13 of insanity.
These figures, like those of the deaths, prove that the year 1894 was an
extremely healthy one.
Deaths from violence show a decrease of eleven, viz., 20 against 31 deaths
in the previous year. The number of fatal street accidents in the whole of
London (255) were 49 less than in the preceding year, or a decrease of 16.1
per cent This is very satisfactory, because, up to last year, these accidents
have year by year steadily increased since 1873.
THE LIBERTY OF GLASSHOUSE YARD.
In the small population of this liberty of 787 persons at the census of
1891, there occurred during the year 1894, 14 births (10 males and 4
females), and 9 deaths (4 males and 3 females). The only death from
preventible disease was a male child from measles.
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The number of notification certificates received during the past year
from medical attendants on the sick was as follows:—small-pox, 16; scarlet