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admissions in the four weeks 260. Still the deaths (75) were
relatively few, being 47 below the corrected average number in
the corresponding weeks in the previous ten years. Thirty-one
cases were recorded in this parish. The mean temperature
was 65°.l and 3°.7 above the average.
In the eighth period (29th—32nd weeks, July 17th to
August 13th) the death rate further rose to 17.2 per 1,000,
being 0.8 above the decennial average, but 6.4 below the
Metropolitan rate (23.6), which was 1.9 above the average.
Our high rate was due to diarrhoea, which caused 58 deaths
(24 in excess of the corrected average) out of 76 attributable to
the principal diseases of the zymotic class. Measles and
whooping-cough were the causes of 3 and 10 deaths, scarlet
fever and diphtheria of 2 each, and enteric fever of one. Out
of 232 deaths 111 were of infants under one year, the cause of
death in 50 cases being diarrhcea. The deaths from diarrhcea
in London generally during these four weeks were 1,848, and
681 in excess of the corrected average. No fewer than 1,508
of the cases were of children in the first year of life. The
epidemic of scarlet fever was progressing, the cases in the
Asylums Board Hospitals on August 13th being 646—increase
in the four weeks, 128—and the admissions 353, against 238 in
the previous month. The recorded cases in this parish were 14
only. The mean temperature was 640.5 and 2°.8 above the
average.
In the ninth period (33rd—36th weeks, August 14th to
September 10th) the eath rate fell (from 17'2) to 13.4 per
1,000, being 0.6 below the decennial average, and 4.8 below the
Metropolitan rate (18.2), which was 0.6 below the average. The
deaths from the principal diseases of the zymotic class were 35,
including 17 from diarrhoea, 2 and 7 from measles and
whooping-cough, 5 and 3 from scarlet fever and diphtheria, and
one from enteric fever. The deaths from diarrhoea in the
Metropolis in these weeks were 746, being 55 in excess of the
corrected average. The scarlet fever epidemic at this date had
begun to assume somewhat disquieting proportions: the deaths in