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the decennial average, and 6.6 per 1,000 below the Metropolitan
rate (19.2), which, however, approximated closely to
the decennial average, 20.1. The weather at this time was still
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cool, the mean temperature in the four weeks being 58°.2 or
2°.9 below the average: hence the comparatively small number
of deaths from diarrhoea, to which the low death-rate was largely
due.
In the tenth period (37th-40th weeks, September 10 to
October 7), the rate of mortality (12.9 per 1,000) approximated
more nearly to the decennial rate (14.2) than in
many previous months, but it was 5.8 per 1,000 below
the Metropolitan rate (18.7), this, however, being within 0.2
per 1,000 of the decennial average. For the third time the
deaths from diarrhoea, in the four weeks, were 12, and the deaths
from the principal diseases of the zymotic class were but one
below the corrected decennial average. The deaths from scarlet
fever were only 3, but the recorded cases were 31 as against 15
21 and 28, in the three previous periods. Scarlet fever was
very prevalent in the Metropolis generally at this time. The
London Fever Hospital was full of it, and the Asylum Board's
Hospitals contained 500 cases.
The eleventh period, comprising the 41st-44th weeks (October
8th to November 4th) was marked by the greatest prevalence
and fatality of scarlet fever, 52 cases having been recorded, and
the registered deaths being no fewer than 16. Hampstead
and Fulham Hospitals were now specially reopened for the
reception of fever cases: the injunctions only restrained
the managers from admitting cases of small-pox. Enteric
fever had also become prevalent; 5 deaths from this cause
were registered during the four weeks. The deaths from
the principal diseases of the zymotic class were 7 above the
corrected decennial average. And now, for the second time in
1882, the parochial death-rate (17.0 per 1,000) exceeded the
decennial average, but only to the extent of 0.7 per 1,000. It
was still below the Metropolitan death-rate to the extent of 3.0
per 1,000; this (20.0 per 1,000) being l.l per 1,000 below the