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Small-pox.— There were no deaths from small-pox in Chelsea in
1900. Two cases of the disease were notified during the course of the
year.
Measles.—This disease caused 33 deaths in 1900, as compared with
18 deaths in 1899, and 92 in 1898. Thirty of the deaths occurred in
the home district, and 3 only in Kensal Town. The epidemic which
was expected, and arrived in the early part of the year, was of but
small intensity, and hardly affected Kensal Town at all.
Scarlet Fever.—This disease caused only 7 deaths in 1900, as compared
with 8 in 1898. Oat of the 8 deaths, only one belonged to
Kensal Town. This is the lowest mortality from scarlet fever yet
recorded, the annual average of the 16 years, 1881—99, being 18 deaths.
Diphtheria.—This disease caused 18 deaths, of which number 14
occurred in the home district, and 4 in Kensal Town. Of the 18 deaths,
9 were under 5 years of age, and 9 were over 5; 11 deaths occurred in
hospitals, and 7 at the patients' own homes.
There has been an immense reduction in diphtheria mortality in
Chelsea since the epidemic of 1896. In the home district in 1900 the
prevalence and fatality of the disease were very similar to those of the
preceding year, but in Kensal Town there was a marked reduction.

Whooping Cough.—Of the 18 deaths from whooping cough, 13 were
of home district ohildren, and 5 were of Kensal Town children. In the
previous year, 1899, this disease was epidemic in the home district in
the early spring, and caused 60 deaths.