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King's College Hospital 2
Leavesden Asylum 3
Liinehouse Cut 1
London Hospital 53
Middlesex Hospital 1
Mother's Home, Commercial Road 2
Mile End Infirmary 1
Park Fever Hospital 1
Poplar Hospital 2
River Lea 1
S.S. "Bra block," West India Docks 1
Sick Asylum 176
Stepney Workhouse 87
South Eastern Fever Hospital 17
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 9
St. George's Infirmary 3
St. Anne's Home, Stoke Newingtnn 1
St. Pelagra's Creche 1
Whitechapel Infirmary 2
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small Pox.— No case of Small Pox has been notified
during the year.
Scarlet Fever.— The corrected number of deaths was 5;
the annual average for the last 10 years being 21.2. 191 cases
were reported during the year, of which 136 were removed to
Hospital. 103 occurred in Limehouse, 37 in Ratcliff, 51 in
Shadwell and Wapping. This is a decrease of 229 from the
number reported in 1897. The death rate was .08 per 1,000 of
the population. The death rate for the whole of London from
Scarlet Fever was .13 per 1,000.
diphtheria.— The corrected number of deaths from Diphtheria
was 25, the annual average for the last 10 years being 33.8.
One hundred and thirty four cases were notified, and 94 removed
to Hospital. This number is 46 less than in 1897. 61 occurred
in Limehouse, 34 in Ratcliff, 39 in Shadwell and Wapping. The
death rate was .4 per 1,000 of the population, that for the whole
of London being 39 per 1,000.