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The severe outbreak of Scarlet Fever which occurred in
the month of January, 1882, in the Russell Square area of
the district, was fully described in last year's Annual
Report. No communication has yet been received from
the Medical Inspector who was appointed by the Local
Government Board to investigate it.
Diphtheria (decennial average, 4.2).—The deaths were
21, all children but one; 11 died in the district, and 10 in
the public hospitals of King's College, Charing Cross, and
the Children's, Great Ormond Street.
I can find no higher fatality from this disease in the
district on record, but it must be observed that the disease
was more than usually fatal in the metropolis.
Whooping Cough (decennial average, 36.3).- Our
deaths were 24, 12 below the average, all young children,
but the all-London mortality from this disease was in
excess of previous years.
Fever, including Typhus, Enteric or Typhoid, and
simple continued fevers (decennial average, 19.1).- The
deaths in 1882 were 16.
Twenty-three pauper patients suffering from Typhoid
Fever were removed to Stockwell Hospital.
Happily no cases of typhus were reported, but then its
old and favourite haunts, viz., the filthy and dilapidated
houses in the courts and alleys in Drury Lane and Little
Coram Street have been swept away, and in the case of
Great Wild Street and Drury Lane new and commodious
dwellings have been erected in their stead, which are
tenanted by a superior class of artizans and workpeople.