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Measles showed the highest proportional fatality in St.
Luke, Bethnal Green, Shoreditch, St. George.in.the.East,
Limehouse, St. Saviour Southwark, St. George Southwark,
and Berrnondsey sanitary areas. Scarlet fever was proportionally
most fatal in St. James Westminster, St. Luke,
St. George.in.the.East, St. Saviour Southwark, Berrnondsey,
Rotherhithe, and Battersea sanitary areas;
15,256 scarlet fever cases were admitted into the Metropolitan
Asylums Hospitals during 1897, and 3,507 patients
remained under treatment at the end of December last.
Diphtheria caused the highest proportional fatality in
Hackney, Clerkenwell, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Poplar,
Berrnondsey, Battersea, Camberwell, and Woolwich
sanitary areas ; there were 6,592 admissions of diphtheria
patients into the Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals during
1897, and 1,066 cases remained under treatment at the end
of December. Whooping.cough was proportionally most
fatal in Holborn, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, Limehouse,
Newington, St. Olave Southwark, and Berrnondsey sanitary
areas; enteric fever in Stoke Newington, City of
London, St. George.in.the.East, Mile End Old Town, and
Poplar sanitary areas ; and diarrhcea in Fulham, St. Luke,
Shoreditch, St. George.in.the.East, St. George Southwark,
Newington, St. Olave Southwark, and Berrnondsey sanitary
areas.
During the year under notice 7,629 deaths from phthisis were
registered in London, equal to a rate of 171 per 1,000;
this disease was much more fatally prevalent in Central
and in East London than in any other part of the Metropolis.
In West London the phthisis death.rate was 1.53
per 1,000, in North London 1.55, and in South London
162, while in East London it was 2 03, and in Central
London as high as 2.69 per 1,000. Among the various
sanitary areas the lowest rates were 0 74 in Hampstead,
0 94 in Lewisham, 1.10 in Lee, 1.13 in Paddington, 1.14 in
Wandsworth, and 116 in St. George Hanover Square ; and