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tailor" in the habit of sleeping in common lodging-houses,
shelters, etc., and had lately been sleeping at the Salvation
Army Shelter, Clerkenwell, but gave an address in St. Luke in
order to obtain admission to the Workhouse. The second was
that of a man 25 years old, a shoemaker by trade, employed at a
factory in Mount Street, Whitechapel, in which district there
existed at the time quite an epidemic of Small-pox.
The third case was a child six years old, who, upon arrival at
the Wharf belonging to the Asylum Board, was found not to be
suffering from Small-pox, and was returned home forthwith.
Besides the foregoing I have made inquiries and advised the
necessary precautionary measures iu a case in which the patient
was employed in this parish, but resided in Shoreditch, and
have also visited three suspected cases at the request of the
Medical Attendants, but which cases proved not to be Small-pox.
There were only 55 deaths due to Small-pox registered in the
Metropolis during the year, against 206 for the year 1894.
Scarlet Fever was the registered cause of death in London
in 829 instances, being the smallest number recorded for the
past four years, the figures being 962 for 1894, 1596 for 1893,
and 1174 for 1892 respectively; of the 829 deaths 69 per cent.
occurred in Public Institutions. In our own district 5 deaths
were certified, as against 9 for the previous year. The cases of
sickness from the same cause numbered 145, against 124 for the
year 1894, 341 for 1893, and 224 for 1892.
Diphtheria caused 18 deaths to Parishioners. This disease,
which had assumed an epidemic form throughout the Metropolis
during the years 1893 and 1894, showed some signs of abatement
during the past year. Nevertheless, the number of deaths was
considerably above the average, amounting to 2316. During
1894 there were 2473, and in 1893, 3265 deaths, the latter being
the largest number ever recorded under this heading.
The number of cases of sickness from Diphtheria notified in
the Parish during the year was 92, and from Membranous
Croup, 6.
Fever.—Under this heading 7 deaths were registered, 6 being
ascribed to Enteric or Typhoid, and one to Puerperal Fever—
of the Enteric three died in Institutions outside the Parish, one
died at the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, one in the