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at the end of the year. Measles showed the highest proportional
fatality in Hammersmith, Chelsea, Westminster,
Islington, Holborn, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, and Woolwich
sanitary areas. Scarlet fever was proportionally most
fatal in Fulham, St. Pancras, St. Luke, St. George Southwark,
Bermondsey, and Rotherhithe sanitary areas; 12,480
scarlet fever cases were admitted into the Metropolitan
Asylums Hospitals during 1898, and 2,883 patients remained
under treatment at the end of December last. Diphtheria
caused the highest proportional fatality in Hackney, Clerkenwell,
St. Luke, Mile End Old Town, St. Saviour Southwark,
St. George Southwark, Newington, and Battersea sanitary
areas ; there were 7,390 diphtheria patients admitted into the
Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals during 1898, and 1,239
remained under treatment at the end of December last.
Whooping-cough was proportionally most fatal in Westminster,
Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, St. George-in-the-East,
Limehouse, Poplar, and St. Olave Southwark sanitary areas ;
enteric fever in St. Pancras, Hackney, Strand, City of London,
Greenwich, and Woolwich sanitary areas ; and diarrhœa in
Fulham, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, Shoreditch, Limehouse,
Poplar, St. George Southwark, and Newington sanitary areas.
During the year under notice 7,746 deaths from phthisis were
registered in London, equal to an annual rate of 1.72
per 1,000; this disease was much more fatal in Central and
in East London than in any other part of the Metropolis.
In West London the phthisis death rate was 1.52 per 1,000,
in North London it was 1.54, and in South London 1.66;
while in East London it was 2.06, and in Central London as
high as 2.66 per 1,000. Among the various sanitary areas
the lowest phthisis death rates were 0.74 in Hampstead, o.88
in Lewisham, 1.04 in Stoke Newington, 1.13 in Wandsworth,
1.16 in Lee, and 1.26 in Kensington ; and the highest rates,
2.64 in St. Luke, 2.70 in St. George-in-the-East, 3.06 in
St. Saviour Southwark, 3.17 in Holborn, 3.18 in St. George
Southwark, 3.32 in Strand, and 3.34 in St. Giles.