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room tenement. The blood of thirteen patients was
examined at the request of medical practitioners; in
eight instances a positive result was obtained, but in
the other five the reaction was negative.
Six of the patients had eaten fried fish prior to the
onset of the illness, two had partaken of shell fish, and
two others of watercress.
SMALL POX.
No death (decennial average 7).
One patient was certified as suffering from smallpox
and was removed to hospital, but as it was found
that he had chicken-pox he was promptly sent home
again.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Deaths 37 (decennial average 56).
All these deaths except one were amongst young
children aged less than five years, a mortality on the
estimated population of young children of 2.0.
DIARRHŒAL DISEASES.
Deaths 90 (decennial average 113).
Various forms of acute or infective diarrhœa caused
ninety deaths, all with the exception of 20 amongst
young infants; as these have been dealt with under
the heading of infantile mortality they call for no
further remark, Eighteen of the deaths were amongst
young children aged between one and five, but only
two adults died from diarrhœa.
The death-rate on the whole population is 0.68
against 0.33 for the County of London.