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16 ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
Small-pox.—1,076 notifications of this disease were
made during 1895 to metropolitan authorities. Five
cases occurred in this District, the source of infection
in each case being traceable. Two deaths occurred, one
a woman aged 51, who had been vaccinated in infancy,
received infection from her unvaccinated son, who was
sent home ill; the disease (a malignant type) not having
been recognised. A sister, age 14, also developed the
disease in a very mild form. The other fatal case was
that of a tramp (unvaccinated), who contracted the
disease in Whitechapel. Of the two other cases, one
contracted the disease in Boulogne, the other in Holborn;
in neither case did the disease spread to any person
employed in the same places of business. Several persons
living in other districts, who contracted small-pox,
worked in this district, but in only one instance did they
communicate the disease to their fellow-workers. The
person thus affected appears to have been the only one
in the offices in which he was employed who was not
protected by vaccination.
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.—There were
11,887 notifications of this disease in London, as
compared with 11,190 in 1894, being at the rate of 2.7
per 1,000 inhabitants. 36 were notified in the Strand
District, but five eventually proved not to be of an
infectious nature. The corrected rate for this District
was, therefore, 1.2 per 1,000 inhabitants; 12 of the
cases proved fatal. The death-rate for London per
1,000 inhabitants was 053, for this District 0.48, for
the Northern Registration Sub-district (St. Anne, Soho)
0.40, and for the Southern Sub-district (Strand) 0.56.
2 of the cases were under 1 year of age.
7 „ „ between 1 and 2 years „