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SCARLET FEVER.
Scarlet Fever raged as an epidemic disease during the whole year,
and caused 94 deaths. This number was 42 more than those registered
in 1892, and 57 more than the average (37) of the preceding eight
years.
The death-rate was equal to 0•28 per 1,000 per annum of the
estimated population, and—notwithstanding the extraordinary number
of cases notified—compares favourably with the mean-rate recorded
during the decade 1871—80, in which it was 0•68, but unfavourably
with the rate during the eight years 1885—92, when it was only 0•11.
The death-rate for the year was, however, lower than that for the
Metropolis, wherein it was 0•37 for the same period, and also lower
than its (London's) mean annual mortality of 0•33 in the decennial
period 1881—90.
In Islington its most fatal effects were felt in the sub-registration
district of Islington South-West, in which the deaths were 40 and the
death-rate 0•37. Highbury followed closely on this rate with one of 0•34
and with 21 deaths. In Upper Holloway, with 19 deaths, the death-rate
was 0•19; while in Islington South-East 14 deaths produced a deathrate
of 0•21.