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Parish of Wandsworth.
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tered from it, as well as 2 in external institutions, making
a total death-roll of 55. Of the 53 deaths in the subdistrict,
48 occurred during the same period as the
deaths from measles, the other 5 occurring at varying
intervals during the rest of the year. Unlike measles,
which did not appear on the death-returns till the week
ending January 25th, whooping cough appeared in the
returns of the closing weeks of 1895, and continued to
prevail till July, 1896. During the month of January,
6 deaths were registered, in February, 14; in March, 4;
in April, 14; in May, 7; in June, 5; and in the first
week of July, 1. The total deaths are 24.59 above the
corrected decennial average.
The distribution of the deaths in the different wards
of the parish was as follows: Ward I. 0, Ward II. 6,
Ward III. 20, Ward IV. 13, Ward V. 6, and Ward VI. 3.
All the deaths, with the exception of one, occurred
among children under five years of age.
The death-rate per 1,000 in this sub-district was .93,
in the Metropolis, .66, and in England and Wales. .41.
The deaths from these two diseases alone amounted
to 111, or, with the addition of those in outside institutions,
119, and were the cause of 12.5 per cent. of the
total deaths, and 51.1 per cent. of the zymotic deaths.
For the next two years we may expect to be fairly
free from these diseases, more especially from measles,
as the great majority of susceptible children must have
suffered from them during the epidemic. Short of notication
and isolation, only two things can be advised,
the first being the early closure of all schools, public and
private, and the next and perhaps the more important,
the better education of the parents in realising that
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