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City Road District, and one in the Finsbury District. The
case of Puerperal also died in the City Road District. There
were 629 deaths registered from Fever within the Metropolitan
area during the year, being a slight decrease upon the numbers
of the two preceeding years.
The table of Infectious Sickness gives a much less favourable
account under this head than that of the previous year, there
being 32 cases notified against 17 during 1894.
Whooping Cough was the cause of 20 deaths in the Parish,
being about half the average number.
The number of deaths registered from Whooping Cough in
London was 1483, showing a death-rate of 0.34 per 1000 living,
being the lowest rate on record from this disease, the average
for the preceding 10 years having been 0.63. This not being
among the notifiable diseases, I am unable to record the amount
of sickness due to it during the year.
Measles.—This disease was credited with having caused 99
deaths, against 13 for the preceding year; the degree of
prevalence of this malady, like the last, can only be judged of by
the number of deaths ascribed to it, because it also is not
notifiable under the Public Health (London) Act.
The returns of the Registrar-General show that although the
number of deaths ascribed to Measles in London amounted to
2633 during the year, the fatality was much less than in the
preceding year, when the number reached 3292. The deaths,
however, showed an increase each quarter: during the first, 300
occurred, 564 during the second, 753 during the third, and 1015
during the fourth quarter.
Diarrhœa caused 63 deaths, 62 of which occurred to
children under five years of age. This number is far in excess
of our usual record, and is, in fact, the largest number registered
since the year 1886. At the same time it is not out of proportion
to the deaths from the same cause throughout the
Metropolitan area, in which the smallest number occurred during
the first quarter of the year, viz. 166, the second quarter the
number rose to 316, during the third quarter as many as 2655
deaths were registered, after which the number fell to 462 during
the fourth quarter, making a total for the year of 3600 cases,
against 1780 for the preceding year, and being in the proportion