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The deaths in London, as a whole, were 942 (against 1,596,
962, and 829, in the preceding three years) and were 146 below
the corrected decennial average. Of the 94.2 deaths 674, or 71.6
per cent., took place at fever hospitals. These deaths were equal
to 0.21 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with 0.24, the
average rate in the ten years immediately preceding. The notifications,
corrected for duplicate returns, were 25,638, against 19,757
in 1895, 18,440 in 1894, and 36,901 in 1893. The case-mortality
was, approximately, 3 7 per cent. on cases notified, as compared
with a rate of 4.1 in 1895, 52 in 1894, and 4.3 in 1893. The
case-mortality in fever hospitals (admissions 16,627; deaths
674) was 4.05 per cent. The following table shows the degree
of prevalence of the disease in the parish, and in London, as a
whole, as evidenced by the number of cases notified, and the
deaths registered, in thirteen successive four-weekly periods.

*The figures in this and the following table are uncorrected for duplicate
notifications. The notifications are taken from the weekly returns of the
Asylums Board: the admissions to, and the numbers in, the hospitals, and the
deaths in London, from the weekly returns of the Registrar-General.