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Cholera. The Committee has, therefore, authorized me to send
to Dr. Klein any such material whenever the circumstances of the
case make it desirable it should be examined by him.
"I am, therefore, to invite you to inform me of any case of
suspected Asiatic Cholera which may occur in your district.
" I am, Dear Sir,
" Yours faithfully,
"SHIRLEY F. MURPHY,
" Medical Officer of Health.
"H. W. Roberts, Esq., M.R.C.S.,
" Medical Officer of Health,
" Deptford
Small Pox showed a decline in London during the past
year. In this District there were reported 35 cases; only 3 deaths
were recorded in the Outlying Institutions, whilst none were
registered in the District.
Scarlet Fever. There was a considerable diminution in
the number of cases reported during the past year; 608 cases were
notified in my District, as against 789 and 1,244 for the two
preceding years; 11 deaths were recorded in the District, and 69
in the South-Eastern Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospital; in
the previous year 12 deaths were registered in the District, and
108 in the Hospital, as against 39 in the District, and 164 in the
Hospital in the year 1893.
Diphtheria. I regret to state that this disease has shewn a
marked increase over the previous years. For the year 1895 there
were registered 636 cases; 1894, 433; 1893, 329; 1892, 125; and
during the year 1891 only 100 cases were notified. The number