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Measles has not been made a notifiable disease in this district, so
that one can only judge from the number of deaths as to the actual
prevalence of the disease. In the month of April the head teachers
of St. Paul's Road Board School, in accordance with their regulations,
notified to me the names and addresses of children, some 169 in
number, who had been excluded from the school on account of
measles occuring at their homes. I interviewed the teachers and
learned that a number of children in the Limehouse and Mile End
Old Town districts were also absent. I caused enquiries to be made
at the 31 houses to which the excluded children belonged, and communicated
with the Medical Officer of Mile End Old Town, in whose
district the school is situated, in order that he might take steps under
the 88th Section of the Educational Code. This was done and the
school closed.

The above figures being the actual number of deaths from diarrhœa,
they indicate that an immense number of cases must have occurred
during the year. Chart I. shews that nearly 1200 deaths occurred in
London in three weeks, viz.. the two last weeks in July and the first
week in August. Chart IV. shews that the prevalence of diarrhœa