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immediately adjoining districts to those from scarlet fever, viz., in districts 12,
13? 14, 17, 30, 32, and 34. In the practice of the parochial surgeons alone, the
cases of measles have risen from 39 in the four weeks of May to 105 in
the five -weeks of June. Nearly all these cases occurred in the Bemerton
district (No. 7), in "White Conduit (No. 12), and in the City Boad district
(No. 35). In Sidney Grove it has spread from house to house, as epidemic
sickness invariably does when it breaks out in that grossly ill-constructed
place. The mortality from fever continues high—two of the deaths recorded
were of nurses in the Fever Hospital. There were seven deaths from
diarrhoea, which is about the average number for June. The deaths from
diseases of the organs of respiration were 46, the corrected average for the
month being 28. One man is stated to have died after the excessive
drinking of ardent spirits and one day's illness from pneumonia.
EDWABD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
July 8th, 1862.