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98
From 1909-1911, the deaths have chiefly occurred in Hermes
Street (5), and Collier Street, Hatfield Street, Lever Street,
Northampton Buildings, Peerless Street, Penton Place, Penton
Street, Risinghill Street, Rodney Street, Southampton Street,
and St. Bartholomew's Buildings 3 deaths each.
Comparative Table. In 1911 Measles caused 85 deaths,
hooping cough 27 deaths.
These two diseases are very fatal to children under five years.
The following table compares the deaths in chi'dren under five
years from measles and hooping cough with the deaths from
certain other diseases.

From this table it appears that the deaths in 11 years due to
scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric fever, and small pox, all taken
together numbered 284, to hooping cough 439, to measles 707.
In children under five years, therefore, it is seen that measles
kills more than twice the number of children whose deaths are
caused by small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and typhoid all
included.
Hooping cough causes a little more than one and-a-half times
the number of deaths accredited to the four remaining diseases.