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Hospital from Kidney Disease after Scarlet Fever. One
Parishioner died from this disease in a Public Institution
outside the Parish.
Diphtheria caused no less than 35 deaths, being the
largest number recorded in the Parish in any year, and
nearly 2½ times the annual average for the preceding 10
years; being also an increase of 10 on the number for 1884.
Of these 35 deaths, however, no less than 12 were those of
non-parishioners dying in St. George's Hospital; 1 was
that of a case contracted in that Hospital, and another is
known to have been imported from the country ; 1 was
certified as from " Diphtheritic Sore Throat." Only one Parishioner
died from this disease in a Public Institution outside
the Parish. Diphtheria has been exceedingly prevalent
in London generally since 1883; there were in 1885 no less
than 147 deaths from Diphtheria and Croup above the
annual average of such deaths during the previous 10 years.
Whooping Cough caused only 19 deaths as against 43
in 1884, and an annual average of 39.5.
Typhus Fever.— No death from this disease was registered
in the Parish during the year.
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever.— Only 8 deaths from this
disease were recorded, a smaller number than in any previous
year since these deaths were separately registered, the lowest
previously-recorded number having been 12 in 1879. Of
these 8 deaths, moreover, no less than 3 were those of nonParishioners
in St. George's Hospital, 2 others were those of
imported cases, and one was that of a very doubtful case in
a person 74 years of age. On the other hand, 3 Parishioners
died from Enteric Fever in Public Institutions outside
the Parish.
An outbreak of this disease occurred at the Home of
the House-Boy Brigade in November, and one of the cases
from this Home died at the Westminster Hospital. On