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Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.—29 cases were
notified, and all but two were removed to hospital; one, a
child who died before it could be removed, and a youth who
went to Waterloo Station in a cab; his destination could not
be ascertained. There were only two deaths, a case mortality
of only 6.8 per cent., that of London being 17.5 per cent.
In London there were 12,811 cases notified, and 2,240 deaths
from this disease, the smallest number since 1892.
Typhoid Fever.—There were 11 notifications, and one
death. One of these was probably not a case of Typhoid
as Widal's reaction could not be obtained. Another was
a nurse who had been in attendance on a case of typhoid,
fever at Guy's Hospital. Four cases were probably not
contracted in this District, one of which was apparently
caused by the consumption of infected oysters while at
Southend.
In London there were 3,113 notifications and 557 deaths.
Measles.
The mortality from measles in this District, although
small in comparison with that of last year—namely, 6 to 15
—it caused three times as many deaths as scarlet fever or
diphtheria.
In London there are generally four or five consecutive
quarters of years with few deaths, followed by three or four
consecutive quarters in which the number of deaths is very
large. Last year it was not till the last quarter that the
number of deaths from measles in London assumed epidemic