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in the Metropolitan Asylums Board's South-Eastern Hospital; of
these, 8 were parishioners. In the previous year, 11 deaths were
registered in the district, and 69 in the Hospital.
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. Only 431 cases
were notified during the year, as against 636 for the previous year;
44 deaths occurred in the two parishes, and 146 deaths were
registered in the South-Eastern Metropolitan Asylum Board's
Hospital; of these 20 were parishioners of Deptford. For the
year 1895 there were 63 deaths in the district, and 126 deaths in
the Hospital.
Fevers. This term includes Typhoid or Enteric, Typhus,
Simple or Continued, and ill-defined forms of Fever, to which 12
deaths were attributed in the district during the year; 30 deaths
were registered in the Hospital. Of these only one was a
parishioner of Deptford, and 86 cases were notified under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891. For the year 1895,
119 cases were reported, whilst eight deaths were registered in
the district, and 45 in the Hospital.
Puerperal Fever. There were 18 cases of this disease
notified, and 4 deaths were registered. In the previous year 13
cases were reported, and 3 deaths were recorded. There was a
general increase throughout the Metropolis of Puerperal Fever
during the year.
Measles is not a notifiable disease under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, therefore it is impossible to ascertain the
number of cases which occurred in the district, but the number
of deaths registered in the two parishes was 120, and 11 in the
Hospital, far in excess of the previous year, when only 25 deaths