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cases notified in this Parish was 96, against 158 for 1893,
the 20 deaths from (his cause being iu the proportion of
0.25 per 1000 living against a corresponding rate of 0 61 for
the whole of London.
Measles may be described as the principal epidemic of the
year, and was very fatal in London, no less than 3293 deaths
having been registered from this cause. The 31 deaths from
this disease in Hampstead during 1894 stand in contrast with
the single death from measles registered in 1893. The
complaint was epidemic in the Town and Kilburn Wards,
being chiefly spread by the agency of schools. The Workhouse
was also attacked, and five children died in that
institution from this cause.
Whooping Cough caused 26 deaths against six for the
preceding year. It was most fatal in the populous districts
of the Kilburn Ward.
Enteric and Typhoid lever.— 49 cases of fever were registered
against 37 for the previous year, but the fatal cases
were three less. It was clearly established in some instances
that the disease had been imported from outside districts.
It is certain that typhoid was epidemic in London during
the close of the year, and most of our cases occurred at that
time. No satisfactory explanation of the outbreak was
arrived at, but there was some reason for thinking that the
consumption of oysters that had been fattened in the
estuaries of rivers, to the water of which typhoid poison had
had access, had been a cause of the infection.
Erysipelas.—67 cases of this disease were notified against 75
for the previous year, with fatal results in two cases. We are