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tion in England and Wales, according to the last Census, of
29,002,525 persons. or just on 83 per cent.
The Report of the Chairman of the Metropolitan Asylums'
Board for the year 1893, states that the number of cases of
infectious diseases notified under the Act of 1889 amounted
to 67,485, as against 46,074 in 1892, 26,522 in 1891, and
29,795 in 1890; of these 67,485 cases, 36,901 were returned
as scarlet fever, 3,663 as enteric fever, 22 as typhus fever,
13,026 as diphtheria, and 2,813 as small-pox, the balance
being made up of 11,060 cases of other diseases notified
under the Act, but not admissible into the Board's
Hospitals.

Disinfection of Infected Clothing &c. Sect. 59.
6,772 articles of clothing, bedding, &c., were disinfected,
free of charge, in the Washington Lyon's Patent Steam
apparatus erected at the Stone Yard, No. 197, High
Holborn.