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This disease was, in fact, absent from the Parish
throughout the year, the single case reported in the
Northern Sub-District in the third quarter of the year
being erroneously so diagnosed. The patient, an
adult female, was removed to hospital only to be
sent home again next day.
In the Metropolis 105 cases were notified, the
smallest total for any year since 1890, when 60 cases
were recorded. No information is available as to the
number of cases erroneously diagnosed. The Reports
of the Ambulance Committee of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board indicate that a very considerable
proportion of the cases sent to the Smallpox Wharves
are erroneously diagnosed.

The single case reported as "cholera" was not one
of true cholera, but of severe diarrhoea with vomiting,
apparently due to poisoning by drain emanations.
The patient was a domestic groom resident in South
Paddington. There were other illnesses of an indefinite
character among the members of his family. An
* In all cases the rates are calculated per 1,000 of the estimated population,
unless otherwise stated.