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proportions, among those living at Bandon Hill during the first
three months of the year, but had almost disappeared in April
and the beginning of May. Towards the end of the latter month
it began to increase again, but mainly amongst those connected
with the Beddington Central School, and during June and July
was epidemic in that neighbourhood, after which it rapidly
subsided, and had disappeared before the end of the summer
holidays. Altogether 124 cases occurred in this Parish during
the year, in 69 houses, and no death was recorded.
In the other parishes affected with the disease the prevalence
was only slight, and in Coulsdon existed mainly in June,
and again in August, after which no further case was reported,
while in Wallington, where there was an extensive epidemic in
1894, one or two cases were reported nearly every month.
The above is a summary of the measles prevalence of the
year under review, but the facts are detailed fully in the tables
in the appendix, which show the weekly incidence of the disease
in Merton, Mitcham, and Beddington, the parishes in which it
was the most pronounced.
Whooping-cough.—Reliable information about the prevalence
of this disease is wanting, the only indication of its
existence being given when a death occurs and it appears in the
Registrar's weekly returns.
These returns show that the disease appeared in 6 parishes,
and caused 13 deaths. In Mitcham there were 7 deaths, of
which 4 occurred in the months of August, September, and
October, and no doubt there was some prevalence then, as was
to be expected, the association of this disease with or its
immediate succession upon an epidemic of measles being commonly
experienced.
The only prevalence approaching epidemic proportions which
came to my knowledge occurred in Woodmansterne at the
beginning of February, where it was found by a house-to-house