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SMALL POX.
The deaths from Small Pox were two in number, and occurred in
the Metropolitan Asylums' Board Small Pox Hospitals, whither the
patients had been removed from Upper Holloway. Each death was
registered in the third quarter. The number of deaths was exactly the
same as in the preceding year. It is satisfactory to find that since 1885
the disease has not assumed a fatal form in the Parish.
The death-rate amounted to only 0•006 per 1,000 per annum of
the population.
MEASLES.
Measles, the notification of which is not compulsory, caused 119
deaths, or 50 less than in 1892, and produced an annual death-rate of
0•36 per 1,000 inhabitants. It was most fatal in the second quarter of
the year, when 52 deaths were registered and the death-rate rose as
high as 0•63. The mortality was greatest in Islington South West,
where the deaths numbered 56, and the death-rate was 0•52; then, in
order of greatest fatality, came Islington South East, with 24 deaths
and a death-rate of 0•36; Upper Holloway, with 24 deaths and a deathrate
of 0•25; and Highbury, 15 deaths and a death-rate of 0•24.
In the Districts the mortality was not, however, greatest in the
same seasons of the year, for while the curve attained its highest point
in Upper Holloway and Islington South West in the second quarter, it
did not reach it in Islington South East until the third, and in Highbury
until the fourth quarter.
In the fourth quarter there was no death from the disease in the
large district of Upper Holloway.
The rate (0•36) registered in the Parish is 0•29 below the average
death-rate of London from Measles during the decade 1881—90, and
very considerably less than the record of the years 1840—80; so that
in this light it cannot be said to have been unduly fatal in 1893.
Compared with the deaths in the Parish itself, they were not
excessive, for it will be noticed in the Table (XXVIII.) that only once in
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