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per cent.); whereas in 189.3, the mortality in the cases sent
to hospital fell to 20.1 per cent., whilst in home cases it rose
34.2 per cent. I know of no other cause than the antitoxin
treatment for the reduction in the mortality of the hospital
cases; nor can I suggest any cause for the rise in the percentage mortality of home-cases, unless it be that the disease
was more severe in 1895 than in 1894, in which event
the reduction in the mortality in the hospital cases becomes
all the more striking. In 1896, as already stated, the results
were even more satisfactory, the mortality in hospital cases
having fallen to 14.7 per cent., the mortality in home cases
having been not far short of double, viz.. 271 per cent.
WHOOPING-COUGH.
Whooping-Cough was the cause of 99 deaths, against 65,
61, and 39, in the preceding three years successively; 95 in
the Town sub-district and 4 in Brompton; the corrected
decennial average being 71. All but two of the deaths
were of children under five years of age, including 39 under
one year. The deaths in London from this cause were 2,937,
and 256 above the corrected decennial average (2,681); they
were in the proportion of 0.65 per 1,000 persons living. The
mean rate in the 10 years 1886-95, was 0.60.
FEVER.
There was no death from Typhus Fever. From Simple
Continued Fever there was one death. Enteric Fever was
the cause of 15 deaths, as compared with 17, 21, and 15, in the
preceding three years respectively, the corrected decennial
average being 17. Twelve of the deaths belong to the Town
sub-district, and three to Brompton. Six of these deaths
occurred in hospitals, to which 46 cases were removed, and 9
at home. Ninety-four cases of the disease were notified, 51
in North Kensington and 43 in South Kensington, as compared
with 102, 90, and 48. in the preceding three years successively.
The deaths in London from Fever were 609—viz., from Typhus