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per 1,000 living population. The total mortality from Diphtheria is
very seriously disturbed by the existence of hospitals in certain of the
areas: in Hampstead, for example, 153 deaths from Diphtheria were
registered in 1899; most of these occurred in the Metropolitan Asylums
Board Hospital, to which the patients had been admitted from other
districts, and after distribution of institution deaths, only 15 remained
as belonging to Hampstead sanitary area."
The death rate for Hampstead from Diphtheria per 1,000 living
was 0.27, for Marylebone 0.51, for St. Pancras 0.50, and Islington 0.67.
The treatment of Diphtheria by antitoxin serum continues, according
to the reports of the Medical Superintendents of the various fever
hospitals, to be giving satisfactory results.
Measles. —Measles was the cause of 22 deaths, against 26 for 1898.
The disease became prevalent in March, April and May, finally disappearing
towards the end of June. The greatest fatality was in the
Town Ward, where several of the elementary and infant departments
of public schools were largely affected. Two children died from this
disease in the Workhouse.
Enteric Fever. —The total number of cases of this disease registered
was 41, against 49 for 1898. These 41, however, include 9 cases of
nurses and members of the female staff in the North-Western Hospital,
who contracted the disease in the discharge of their duties, so that the
number of cases referred to Hampstead parishioners may be reduced to
32. The fatal cases were four, against 10 for 1898.
Enteric Fever was the registered cause of 801 deaths in the
Metropolis. These deaths were equal to a rate of 0.18 per 1,000 living
population, as compared with 0.14, the average rate in the ten years
1889-1898. The Registrar-General states that the lowest rates from
this disease were 0.4 in St. Saviour, and 0 - 5 in Hampstead; the highest
rates were 0.30 in Bethnal Green, 0.35 in Clerkenwell, and 0.43 in the
City of London.
Diarrhœa was returned as the cause of 39 deaths, all of which
occurred in the third quarter of the year, when the temperature was