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recognition of the dangerous character of the disease exists. The
death rate from whooping cough in Bow in 1896 was 0.7. as against
0.53 in 1895 and 0.09 in 1894. Whooping cough is not a notifiable
disease and therefore there are no means of ascertaining its prevalence
except by the mortality statistics. In London generally whooping
cough stands third in the list of deaths from zymotic diseases, the
total being 2931, with a death rate of 0.65. In the Eastern Districts
the deaths and the death rate were respectively as follows:—
Shoreditch, 126, 1.01 ; Bethnal Green, 160, 1.22; Whitechapel, 36,
0.45; St. Georges's, 17, 0.35; Limehouse, 61, 1.03; Mile End, 83,
0.73 ; Poplar, 158. 0.92.
In Bow the deaths were 33, the annual rate per thousand being 0.7.
The following is the record since 1880:—
Bow—1880 21
1881 30
1882 47
1883 14
1884 21
1885 39
1886 12
1887 69
1888 17
1889 44
1890 57
1891 45
1892 31
1893 17
1894 4
1895 18
1896 33
In the matter of fevers, Bow's record is again most satisfactory
and an improvement in some respects upon the record of last year.
Once more no deaths occurred from typhus fever, so
FEVERS
that the unique position I hold of never having had a
death from that disease in my district is still preserved; also there
were not in 1896 any notifications as against an incorrect one in the
preceding year.
London still shows comparative freedom from this disease, there