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dysentery in the Metropolis in the four weeks, were 1,424, and
exceeded the corrected average by 230. Of these deaths, 1,117
were of infants under one year of age. The mean temperature
was 61°.4 and 0°.7 below the average.
In the ninth period (33rd-36th weeks, August 15th to September
11th) the rate of mortality fell to 14.0 per 1,000, being
0.2 below the decennial average, and 33 below the Metropolitan
rate, this being 1.8 below the decennial average. The deaths from
the principal diseases of the zymotic class were 33, and two below
the average, 25 being due to diarrhœa, including 20 of infants
under one year, and 3 between one and two years. A death from
"cholera" (after 24 hours illness) was that of a boy aged 12, who
had had severe diarrhœa attacks on former occasions, and who
was alleged to have eaten an indefinite quantity of fruit,
possibly unsound or unripe, prior to the fatal attack. The
deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery in the Metropolis, in
the four weeks, were 806, including 579 infants under one year,
and exceeded the average by 130. Scarlet fever was prevalent in
the Metropolis and was increasing: the admissions at the Asylums
Board Hospitals in the four weeks were 196, and 400 cases were
under treatment, September 11th, an increase of 130 compared
with August 14th The disease was not virulent, the mortality
being much below average. A non-fatal imported case of smallpox
was recorded. Practically the Metropolis was free from this
disease. The mean temperature was 62°.7 and 2°.7 above the
average.
In the tenth period (37th-40th weeks, September 12th to
October 9th) the rate of mortality further fell to 13.1 per 1,000,
being the same as the decennial average, and 3.8 below the
Metropolitan rate, which was 1.0 below average. The deaths from
the principal diseases of the zymotic class were 23 (three above
the average), including 15 from diarrhœa, or six above the corrected
decennial average. Eleven of the 15 deaths were of
infants under one year, and three were of children between one
and two years. The deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery in the
Metropolis fell in the four weeks to 498 (compared with 1,424