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The deaths registered from them in all London during
1892 numbered 11,983, corresponding to a zymotic deathrate
of 2.7 per 1,000, and 0'5 higher than the rate for
1891.
In England and Wales there were 426 deaths from smallpox,
13,167 from measles, 5,524 from scarlet fever, 5,783
from diphtheria, 12,639 from whooping-cough, 4,202 from
fever, and 14,291 from diarrhoea. These 56,032 deaths
correspond to an annual zymotic death-rate of 1.9 per 1,000,
against 2.2, 2.1, and 1.90 in the three preceding years.
The deaths from the same class of diseases in St. Giles
District were 104, equivalent to a rate of 2.6 per 1.000,
and 0.3 lower than the rate of the preceding year.
MIASMATIC ORDER.
1.—Small-Pox.
(Decennial average, 4.1.)
At the last epidemic of small-pox which attacked the
Metropolis in 1884-85, no less than 181 cases, of which 37
were fatal, were recorded in St. Giles; since that date, with
the exception of one doubtful case in 1887 and one in 1891,
the District was practically free from the disease until
February, 1892, when it reappeared and continued until
August. During that time the following seven cases, all of
which recovered, were notified, viz.:—
First Case.—A male, œt. 27 years, tin-plate worker, residing
at No. 13, Lascelles Place. No information could be
obtained where this man caught the disease; it was stated
that he had never been vaccinated, and that the factory
where he worked was free from illness.