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which fifteen patients were removed. The recorded cases were
40; 24 in North Kensington and 16 in South Kensington, the
Uxbridge Road being the dividing line. There were only 10
deaths in London from Typhus, and 33 from the ill-defined
forms of Continued Fever, the numbers being fewer than in any
previous year, but the deaths from Enteric Fever were 677, and
more numerous than in any of the three preceding years. They
were nevertheless far below the decennial average.
DIARRœA.
Diarrhoea was the cause of 58 deaths, 45 in the Town
sub-district, and 13 in Brompton, being 52 below the corrected
decennial average. Fifty-two of the deaths were of children
under five, including 47 under one year. Of the total number,
38 were registered in sixteen weeks, June 17th to October
6th inclusive. The deaths from diarrhœal diseases in London
generally (2,176) were 1,249 below the corrected decennial
average. This low mortality was due to the unusually cold and
wet weather that prevailed during July and August, the mean
temperature in these two months having been 2'8 Faht. below
the average of 117 years. The Registrar-General observes that
" the effect of a hot or cold summer upon the diarrhoea
mortality is well shewn by comparing the years 1887-1888, for
neither the number nor the sanitary condition of the population
can have differed materially in these two consecutive years, which
stood, however, widely apart in the matter of temperature. In
1887 the mean temperature of the third quarter was 61° 0 Faht.,
and the deaths in that quarter from diarrhoea were 3,200,
while in 1888 the mean temperature was 57.6, and the diarrhœal
deaths only 1,439."
METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.
The work and proceedings of the Asylums Board, important
at all times to those concerned in sanitary administration
within the metropolis, have acquired additional interest in