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SMALL POX.
No death was registered from Small Pox during the year nor was a case
of the disease notified.
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MEASLES.
101 deaths were registered, or 50 less than in 1912, and 23 less than in
1911. Nevertheless the toll of lives is a heavy one, and ought to have been
much lighter, for many of the deaths were undoubtedly due to causes which
might with reasonable care and forethought have been prevented. The deathrate,
which was equal to 0-31 per 1,000 of the population, contrasts with a
mean rate of 0-27 in the boroughs encircling Islington, and is lower than that
of Finsbury, but almost identical with that of Hackney.
The Medical Officer of Health desires to draw special attention to Table
XXXVII., which gives the secondary causes of the deaths, but which were
really the true diseases from which the children, who had been attacked with
measles, died.