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Small Pox.
No case of Small Pox has occurred in the District during the
year, though there were 64 cases in London, with 4 deaths. This
is the fifth year in succession that the district has been free
from this disease. This result is highly satisfactory when we
consider
(a) The Sailors' Homes that there are in the district and
the large number of foreign sailors that stay in these
places from time to time.
(b) That in this district is situated one of the largest free
shelters in London, where from 400 to 450 men sleep
every night. The people that sleep in this shelter
constitute a lower class even than that which frequents
the casual wards in the various workhouses, and which
proved to be the main cause of spreading Small Pox
during the last epidemic that occurred in London a few
years ago.
(c) The large number of children that are unvaccinated
in the district.
Scarlet Fever.
The corrected number of deaths was 11. Ten of these
occurred in the Fever Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums
Board. The annual average for the preceding 10 years was
16.8. 145 cases were notified during the year, of which 119
were removed to the various Fever Hospitals; 63 occurred in
Limehouse, 50 in Ratcliff, and 32 in Shadwell and Wapping.
The Death rate was .18 per 1000 of the population, the Death
rate for the whole of London being .o8 per 1000.
Diphtheria.
The corrected number of deaths was 19, the annual average
for the preceding 10 years being 32.9. 169 cases were
notified and 133 were removed to Hospital. 87 occurred in
Limehouse, 43 in Ratcliff, and 39 in Shadwell and Wapping.
The Death rate was .32 per 1,000 of the population, that for
the whole of London being .34 per 1,000.