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Fever Hospital at Islington, and 151 cases were treated
at the homes of the patients. The mortality rate on the
the cases reported was 3.01 per cent.
DIPHTHERIA AND DIPHTHERITIC MEMBRANOUS CROUP.
One hundred and eighty-nine cases were reported as due
to diphtheria or diphtheritic membranous croup, against
282 cases in the previous year. Forty-two cases reported
last year were treated in the Isolation Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board, 29 at the West London
Hospital, and 118 at the homes of the patients. The
mortality rate on the total cases reported in the Parish
was 28.08 per cent.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Fifty-five cases were reported last year as due to whooping
cough, against 51 cases in the previous year. All of
the cases reported last year were treated at home, and
were not reported until after death. As this is not a
notifiable disease, it is of no use my giving the mortality
rate on the cases reported, as, no doubt, a very much larger
number of cases which recovered were not reported to me.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Fifty-two cases were reported last year as due to enteric
fever, against 68 cases in the previous year. Five of the
cases reported last year were treated at the Isolation
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 10 at the
West London Hospital, one at St. Mary's Hospital, two
at Charing Cross Hospital, and one at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital. Thirty-three cases were treated at the homes
of the patients. The mortality rate on the cases reported
was 26.9 per cent.
TYPHUS FEVER.
No case was reported last year as due to typhus fever
against no case in the previous year.
SIMPLE CONTINUED FEVER.
Four cases were reported last year as due to simple,
continued fever against four cases in the previous year.
One of the cases reported last year was treated at an
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