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These recommendations were directed to be forwarded to
the Local Government Board, with the view of getting them
embodied in a Bill to be placed before Parliament.
Your Board agreed with resolutions 1, 3, 4, 7, and 8,
and directed a communication to that effect to be addressed
to the Local Government Board.
2.—Measles (decennial average 28 4 per 1,000) caused
15 deaths in 1894, all young children ; this number is considerably
below the average.
3.—Scarlet Fever (decennial average 7.5 per 1,000)
last year was only fatal in two cases.
'1 he prevalence of scarlet fever in London during the year
1894 showed a very marked decline, 18,446 cases being
notified against 36,901 during 1893. During the year
under notice, 11,767 scarlet fever patients were admitted
into the Metropolitan Asylum Hospitals.
The mortality in London, which had averaged 0.30 per
1,000 in the preceding ten years, did not exceed 0.21 last
year.
4.—Diphtheria (decennial average 14.1 per 1,000).
During 1894, 11,186 cases were notified in London, and
4,128 new case3 were removed to the Asylum Board's
Hospitals.
In St. Giles, the 13 deaths from diphteria in 1894, viz.,
4 adults, and 9 children under 5 years, were just below the
average ; this to a certain extent is satisfactory, as the prevalence
of the disease in London during the past year caused
a mortality equal to 0.38 per 1,000.