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the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, will be found in Table
No. 8, while Table No. 9 shows the cases notified to the several
Metropolitan Medical Officers of Health during the year ending
December 30th, 1893.
Table No. 10 shows the deaths from all causes, and also from
the principal Zymotic Diseases in the various Metropolitan Districts
during the year 1893.
Table No. 11 gives an analysis of the Vital and Mortal
Statistics of the thirty-three great towns during the year 1893.
Table No. 12 gives an analysis of Sickness and Mortality
Statistics of London during the same period.
Scarlet Fever was very prevalent during the year throughout
the whole of the Metropolis, no less than 1,244 cases were
reported in my District, as against 862 and 421 for the two
previous years. Great difficulty was experienced at one time in
obtaining admission to the Hospital; many were compelled to
remain at their own homes until vacancies occurred, and in some
instances cases of an urgent character, which I considered should
have had priority, were passed over (although I had communicated
with the Authorities), for others reported at a later date. We had
recorded 39 deaths in the District, and 164 in the South-Eastern
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospital; in the previous year
8 deaths were registered in the District and 160 in the Hospital.
Diphtheria shows a considerable increase in the District,
as, indeed, it does through the whole of the Metropolis. In my
District as many as 329 cases were notified, as against 125 and 100
for the two previous years. The number of deaths was 59, and