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Diphtheria (decennial average 4.3). — There were 6
deaths (all children); 3 died in the District and 3 in public
hospitals.
In addition, several children of poor parishioners were
admitted into the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond
Street, suffering from this disease.
Whooping.Cough (decennial average 37.2).—29 children
died from it. The Metropolitan death.rate from this disease
was the lowest on record.
Diarrhœa (decennial average 54.0).—The death.rate
for the year was unusually low. There were 36 deaths;
of these 29 were children.
Fever (decennial average 19.7). — Including typhoid,
typhus, and simple continued fever. There were 20 deaths
from these forms of fever (our heaviest death.rate since
1874); of these 16 were attributed to typhoid (including
6 at hospitals), 1 to typhus, and 3 to simple continued
fever.
The fever was most severe during the summer and
autumn months. 7 cases of typhoid and 13 of typhus
were removed to Stockwell Hospital; besides these many
cases of sickness were reported remaining at their own
homes under medical treatment.
Typhus broke out in Marchmont Place, part of the
Little Coram Street area condemned under the Artizans
Dwellings Act, 1875. The disease spread rapidly, and
its progress was not arrested until most of the filthy and
dilapidated houses in this court were closed by a Magistrate's
order.
There have been two outbreaks of typhus fever in the
District since I have been your Medical Officer ; viz., in