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The "corrected" Return for 1899 has not yet been
received from the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Small-pox.—No case of small-pox was notified. In
London there were 29 notifications, and 3 deaths.
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina.—There were 65 cases
notified, and 2 deaths; 61 of the 65 cases were removed
to hospital. In London the notifications were 18,112 in
number, and the deaths from the complications of this
disease were 398, the smallest number of deaths in London
from this disease ever recorded, and much below the average
of the preceding ten years.
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.—32 cases were
notified, and all but two were removed to hospital, one of
which was dead before the notification was received. There
Avere eight deaths, a case mortality of 25 per cent., that
of London being 14.7 per cent. In London there were
13,363 cases notified, and 1,964 deaths from this disease.
Typhoid Fever.—There were 11 cases notified, and
two deaths. Four of the cases were probably contracted
from some unnotified cases in a house in the same street.
In London there were 4,460 notifications and 801 deaths.
Measles.—10 deaths were assigned to this disease. In
London the number of deaths was 2,143.
In London there are generally four or five consecutive
quarters of years with few deaths, followed by three or four
consecutive quarters in which the number of deaths is very
large.