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managers; 5,159 convalescent patients were transferred to
the Northern and Gore Farm Hospitals ; 5,465 recovered
patients were brought back to London from the latter
hospitals, and 269 patients were removed to other places
than the Managers' Hospitals.
" Altogether 29,688 removals were effected by the land
ambulance service during 1894, and the various vehicles
made 19,796 journeys and ran 203,820 miles.
" The steamboats of the river ambulance service conveyed
7,614 passengers to and from the hospital ship at Long
Reach."
Diarrhceal Order.
7.—Diarrhcea (decennial average, 21*1). The 9 deaths,
all young children, were the lowest that I can find in any
record.
The 1,769 fatal cases in all London were little more than
half the corrected average, and the death-rate from the
disease, compared with the mean mortality in the ten years,
showed a marked decline.
NOTIFICATION OF DIARRHOEA.
The following is a copy of letter received from the
Secretary of the Local Government Board :—
Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W.
July 16th,1894.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board to state
that cholera, from which certain parts of Europe have never been
entirely free since the summer of 1892, again shows some signs of
recrudescence on the Continent.