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In many other houses, although not registered, the rooms
have been measured and the results recorded.
Although this year there is a reduction in the general
death-rate, this rate, and also that from phthisis, continue to
be higher than the rates for London.
Statistics of the London districts have shown that these
rates increase with an increase of conditions that are associated
with, and expressed by the word, " overcrowding."
Continued efforts have been made to abate this recurring:
nuisance. Last year, 79 cases of overcrowding were dealt
with.
Many rooms were again found to be in a filthy and
disgraceful state on account of the neglect of the occupiers.
In 85 such cases, notices were served on the tenants with
very beneficial results.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board has again been unable
to receive all the cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria that
required to be removed to their hospitals, notwithstanding the
continued efforts of the Managers to keep pace with the
growing demands of the Metropolis.
The treatment of diphtheria by anti-toxic sernm still
continues to give very satisfactory results.
The Board consented to continue to pay the expenses of
bacteriological examination of material from doubtful cases
of diphtheria at the Laboratory of Guy's Hospital. Only
two such cases were examined last year. These do not