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The western group of districts had the highest whooping cough death rate during the
year 1901, viz., 0-42 per 1,000 living, and the central group of districts the lowest (0"27). Among
the several metropolitan boroughs Hammersmith had the highest death rate (0'71), and the City
the lowest (0 08). The whooping cough death rates in London in the four quarters of the year
1901 were as follows: first quarter, 0-51 ; second quarter, 0 53 ; third quarter, 0'2l ; and fourth
quarter, 015 per 1,000 living.
Typhus.

Iii this table '000 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of *0005.
The death rate in each year since 1868 in relation to the mean death rate of the period
1869-1901 is shown in diagram XIII.
Twenty persons were certified during the year to be suffering from typhus. The circumstances
of the cases in which the diagnosis could not at once be stated to be inaccurate are as
follows—■
Nine persons, all members of the same family, living in Addey-street, Deptford, suffered in
January from this disease. The father of the family was an asphalt© road worker, and the
familyb had been living in this house for three or four years. The first person in this group
to be attacked was a boy aged 13 years. He was a pupil at the Regent-street Board School,
and used to run messages for his mother, but had not been out of his own neighbourhood.
It is not known how he became infected, but there is no reason for doubting that he infected
the other members of the family, although it was not until his mother, who was the fifth case,
was attacked that the disease was recognised as typhus.
1 Fee footnote (5) page 9.
2 See footnote (') page 9.