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It cannot be said that the poor of our two parishes are
unprovided with medical assistance in time of illness, for in
addition to this public dispensary and the medical staff of
the Guardians, there is a Mission Dispensary in Endell
Street, and the following general and special hospitals are
in close proximity to the district, viz: Royal Free;
University College; Middlesex; Charing Cross; King's
College; The Childrens', Great Ormond Street; and the
Homoeopathic; The Ophthalmic; Ear; Throat; Skin;
Consumption (North London); Heart; and Stone.
Mortality from certain Classes of Diseases.
I. The Seven principal Zymotic Diseases—Small Pox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, WhoopingCough,
Fever, and Diarrhcea.
The death-rate from these diseases in England and
Wales was equal to 2.6 per 1000.
In London there were 13,553 deaths: 431 from smallpox;
2,329 from measles; 2,004 from scarlet fever; 8G3
from diphtheria; 4,647 from whooping-cough; 1,117 from
fever (principally enteric or typhoid), and 2,162 from
diarrhcea. The death-rate from these diseases in the
aggregate was 3.49 per 1,000, the mean annual rate in the
preceding decade having been 3.59.
The most notable fact in regard to these diseases was
the subsidence of the small-pox outbreak which began in
1876.
The number of deaths from these seven diseases in St.
Giles District was 156, and equal to a death-rate of 3.3 per