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satisfactorily with the corrected average of 178 and the mean death-rate of
2.13 in the first quarters of the ten years 1893-1902. The deaths are, therefore,
8 below this average, and the death-rate 0.13 below the mean.
The death-rate was 1.83 per 1,000 in the County of London, while in the
Encircling Boroughs the zymotic death-rate was 1.83 per 1,000, whilst in
St. Pancras it was 2.07, in Stoke Newington, 1.69, in Hackney, 1.61, in
Hornsey, 1.17, in Finsbury, 2.17, and in Shoreditch, 2.01 per 1,000.

Small Pox.—No death was registered from Small Pox during the
quarter, as against an average of 2 deaths in the first quarters of the ten years,
1893-1902.
Measles was credited with 35 deaths, or 29 less than the corrected
average (64) of the preceding ten first quarters of the year. Pneumonia was
ascribed as a secondary cause in 26 of these deaths, Bronchitis in 5, and
Empyema in 1, or altogether 32 from these affections of the respiratory
organs.
In the borough the death-rate was equal to 0.41 per 1,000 inhabitants per
annum, in London 0.58, and in the Encircling Boroughs 0.65.
Scarlet Fever.—Only 9 deaths were registered, or 3 more than the
corrected average (12) of the ten preceding first quarters. The death-rate
was 0.10.
Diphtheria caused 20 deaths, which were equal to a death-rate of 0.24
per 1,000 inhabitants, as against a corrected average of 37, and a mean deathrate
of 0.43 per 1,000.
Whooping Cough showed an increased mortality, for 88 deaths were
ascribed to it, whereas the average mortality has been 48, and were equal to a
death-rate of 1.04 per 1,000 inhabitants.