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the four weeks were 151, and 24 in excess of the corrected
decennial average. The cases in the Asylums Board Hospitals
on September 10th were 1,035, against 646 on August 13th,
an increase of 389. The admissions in the four weeks were 634,
or 281 more than in the previous month. The recorded cases
in Kensington were 55. The mean temperature was 59°.7,
and 0o.6 below the average.
In the tenth period (37th—40th weeks, September 11th to
October 8th) the death rate further fell to 11.3 per 1,000 (the
lowest rate recorded in the year), being 1.7 below the decennial
average and 3.9 below the Metropolitan rate (15.2), which was
2.6 below the average. The deaths from the principal diseases
of the zymotic class were 20, including 11 from scarlet fever,
the largest number recorded in 1887. Whooping-cough was
the cause of 4 deaths, diphtheria and measles of 1 each, and
diarrhcea of 3. The recorded cases of scarlet fever were
115, the largest number in any month in the year. On October
8th there were 1,759 cases in the Asylums Board Hospital (increase
in the four weeks 724), and the admissions in the four
weeks were 986, or 352 more than in the previous four-weekly
period. The deaths were 181, and 7 above the corrected decennial
average. Apart from this epidemic, the state of the public
health was satisfactory. I was able to report, as regards our
own parish, that " the deaths from the zymotic diseases were
fewer than in any previous month in the year,'' that " the
deaths from diseases of the respiratory system were exceptionally
few, the deaths of young children fewer than in any
previous month, and the deaths of persons over 60 years of age,
with one exception, the fewest recorded in the year." The
mean temperature was 520.2 and 20.7 below the average.
In the eleventh period (41st—44th weeks, October 9th to
November 5th), the death rate rose (from 11.3) to 15.3, being
0.2 above the decennial average, but 4.5 below the Metropolitan
rate, which was average. The deaths from the principal
diseases of the zymotic class were 19 (the smallest total in the
year) including 6 from scarlet fever, 4 each from measles and