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be willing to supply the anti-toxin serum on the following conditions
—viz., that the Metropolitan Asylums' Board would afford accommodation
on one of their farms near London for the required number of
horses, such accommodation to include the services of the necessary
stable attendants and the keep of the animals, and that other
expenses entailed in the preparation of the serum should be defrayed
by the Metropolitan Asylums' Board, with the exception of the initial
cost of the horses, which would be provided by the Royal Colleges.
INFLUENZA.
Seven deaths from Influenza were registered in Poplar and seven
in Bromley.
WHOOPING COUGH.
There were registered 16 deaths from Whooping Cough belonging
to Poplar and 36 to Bromley, giving respective rates of 0^27 and 0^44
per 1000 living.
MEASLES.
Fifty-six deaths were registered from Measles in Poplar, and two
deaths were reported from outlying institutions, making a total of 58,
and giving a death rate of ro per 1000 living. Of the 58 deaths 57
were under the age of five years. 103 deaths occurred in Bromley,
eight of the deceased were non-parishioners, so that 95 deaths
belong to Bromley, and these occurred in patients under the age of
five years. The death rate from this disease in Bromley was 1.31
per 1000 living.
In my report to the Sanitary Committee on the 12th of April, I
called the Committee's attention to 25 deaths from measles having
occurred in Bromley during the past month. 1 mentioned the fact
that it was in the power of the Board to make an order to include
measles among the list of notifiable diseases, and that such order may
be permanent or temporary, so that in either case copies of the