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character; the term "fever" includes typhus, enteric,
and simple continued forms of fever.
During 1895 the deaths from these diseases in England
and Wales were 64,901.
In Registration London these same diseases caused
11,545 deaths, equal to a zymotic death-rate of 2.6 per
1,000.
In St. Giles District there were 77 deaths, equal to a
death-rate of 1.9 per 1,000, a rate below that of the
previous year. 19 of these deaths occurred in the
following hospitals and public institutions situated outside
the district:—Ship Atlas, 1 (small-pox); South-Western
Fever Hospital, 2 (scarlet 1, enteric 1); Western Fever
Hospital, 1 (diphtheria); North-Western Fever Hospital,
6 (diphtheria 2, scarlet 3, measles 1); Children's Hospital
2 (diphtheria); Charing Cross Hospital, 3 (diphtheria);
King's College Hospital, 3 (diphtheria); University
College, 1 (diarrhœa).
MIASMATIC ORDER.
1.—Small-Pox (decennial average, 2.4 per 1,000).
In St. Giles District, during the ten years 1885-1894,
there were 164 cases reported; 24 of these terminated
fatally.
No case occurred in the District from August, 1894,
until March, 1895. From that date to the 13th August 13
notifications of the disease were received. The patients
(with one exception, vide Case 7) were removed to hospital,
where one (an adult vaccinated in infancy) died.