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SMALL-POX.
Eight cases of small-pox were notified during the year,
four in North Kensington and four in South Kensington,
Notting Hill High-street and the continuation road westwards
being the dividing line. Six of the cases were removed to
hospital. There was no death from this cause, the corrected
decennial average being 3.5. Particulars of the mortality
during the decennium 1885-94 will be found in table
5, appendix. In London 55 deaths were registered, the
decennial average, corrected for increase of population,
being 159. During the preceding nine years the total deaths
aggregated 390 only, the annual number of deaths being
24, 9, 9, 0, 1, 8, 41, 206, and 89, in the several years
successively. The mean annual mortality in the decennium
1885-94 was 0.04 per 1,000 persons living, and lower
than in any previous decennium : the rate in 1895 was 0.01.
The notifications in 1895, corrected for dual returns, were 979.
MEASLES.
Measles was the cause of 33 deaths, compared with 109,
18, and 108, in the preceding three years respectively; 31 in
the Town sub-district and 2 in Brompton; the corrected
decennial average being 82.5 (vide table 5, appendix).
Twenty-three of the deaths occurred during the last 16 weeks
of the year, the deaths in the preceding 36 weeks having been
10 only. All but one of the deaths occurred under the age of
five years: under one year of age the deaths were 9. The
deaths in London from this cause were 2,633; 112 below the
corrected decennial average, 2,745; showing a decline of 660
from the number registered in 1894. The death rate was 060
per 1,000 population, the rate in the preceding decennium
having been 0 63. The question whether measles should be
made a notifiable disease is again exciting attention, I dealt