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64 were registered during the 3rd quarter of the year, and they
were chiefly of infants and very young children.
The whole of the cases of Small Pox, Scarlet Fever, Typhus
Fever, Enteric Fever, Diphtheria, and Measles with which our
department has become acquainted during the year are recorded
upon Table O.*
Disinfection has been carried out in every case under the
personal direction of your Inspectors, and the means, with which
you are familiar, have been adopted to counteract any tendency
towards the dissemination of disease. 147 cases of Scarlet Fever
are recorded against 79, 40, and 119 respectively in the three
preceding years, whilst the deaths for corresponding years were
respectively 27, 22, 16, and 45. These returns indicate an improvement
probably due to one or more of the following conditions—
more prompt isolation, improved sanitary precautions, and a less
virulent type of the disease.
Table P† contains so much of the Inspectors' work as can be
thus set out. It gives me great pleasure to again mention the
names of Messrs. Battram and Wrack in terms of the highest
praise.
Infant
Mortality.
The deaths of infants under the age of one year in London
equalled 25.5 per cent. of the total deaths and
15.7 per cent. of the registered births, whilst in
the Whitechapel District, those infants who died
under the age of one year, equalled 27.5 per cent.
of the total deaths, and 17.1 per cent. of the registered births.
The deaths of children under five years of age, including the
above, were, for London, equal to 42.7 per cent. of the total
deaths, and 26.4 per cent. of the registered births; and for the
Whitechapel District they were equal to 45.0 per cent. of the
total deaths, and 28.0 per cent. of the registered births.
Extra
Metropolitan
Deaths.
During the year 34 deaths of residents (18 men and 16
women) were returned from Leavesden, Banstead,
and Colney Hatch Asylums; 19 of the
deaths were attributed to brain diseases, 9 to
diseases of the chest, and the remainder to old age.
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