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after removal, viz., 1 at Charing Cross Hospital and 1 at
the North-Western Fever Hospital.
The total notifications were 56; of these 45 were
treated at the several hospitals.
The Registrar-General, in his annual summary for
1896, states:—"Among London sanitary areas the lowest
death-rates from diphtheria, after distribution of institution
deaths, were 0.09 in St. James, Westminster, 0.12 in
Strand, 0.18 in St. Giles, and 0.21 in Wandsworth."
The Report of the Medical Superintendents of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board upon the use of anti-toxic
serum in the treatment of diphtheria in the hospitals of
the Board during 1896, gives the following improved
results:—
1.—A great reduction in the mortality of cases brought under treatment
on the first three days of illness.
2.—The lowering of the combined general mortality to a point below
that of any former year.
3.—The still more remarkable reduction in the mortality of laryngeal
cases.
4.—The uniform improvement in the results of tracheotomy at each
separate hospital.
5.—The beneficial effect produced on the clinical course of the
disease.
5.—Whooping-Cough (decennial average 19.7).
There were 13 deaths from this disease. These were
all infantile and below the average.
6.—Continued Fevers (decennial average 7.6).
Again no case was recorded from either typhus or
simple continued forms of fever.