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rise in the mortality from diarrhoea when the temperature of
the soil at a depth of four feet from the surface reaches 56°.
The total number of notifications of infectious diseases
this year have been only 63, excluding second notifications of
the same cases. They were distributed among the following
diseases :—
Small-pox 1
Scarlet Fever 33
Diphtheria 22
Typhoid Fever 2
Erysipelas 4
Puerperal Fever 1
In 1893 there were as many as 219 notifications; and
in 1894, 83 ; and, as just mentioned, this year there were only
63, a reduction of just 25 per cent. This District this year
has had rather less than one-half the amount of notifiable
disease than the rest of London for an equivalent population.
In Registration London the number of cases notified
was Small-pox 1076
Scarlet Fever 20,654
Diphtheria 11,426
Membranous Croup 461
Enteric Fever 3,710
Typhus Fever 15
Other continued Fevers 107
Puerperal Fever 249
Erysipelas 5,994
Cholera 30
Relapsing Fever 4
Total 43,726
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