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In only two weeks in 1896—namely, the 2nd and the 43rd, was
there 110 notification of the existence of diphtheria in Bow. The
highest number of notifications in any one week was 8, which was
reached on one occasion, the 6th week.
As in 1894 and 1895, the last year passed without any fear of an
epidemic of Asiatic cholera, although at intervals there were the
DiARRHŒA &
CHOLERA
customary newspaper scares. Bow shows a clean sheet,
as, though there were 6 deaths ascribed to cholera, two
were qualified as " infantile," and the remaining four as
" English," not one was notified as infectious, and all occurred in
the two hottest months of the year. It would be a safe opinion to
say that these cases of cholera could be correctly described as
" infantile diarrhoea."
With regard to diarrhoea, the number of deaths remained practically
the same. There were 25 in 1896 and 24 in 1895, and only
12 in 1894, which was a very cold summer. The death-rate from
diarrhoea in 1896 was 0.5, as against 0.59 per 1000 for 1895. In
1895 in the whole county diarrhoea in point of numbers was the
most fatal of any zymotic disease. In 1896 it stands second on the
list with 3192, and a death-rate per 1000 of 0.71. The numbers in
the Eastern Districts were—Shoreditch 136, Bethnal Green 113,
Whitechapel 45, St. George's 60, Limehouse 49, Mile End 95, and
Poplar 168.
The Bow record since 1880 for diarrhoea is as follows :—
Bow—1880 26
1881 27
1882 20
1883 17
1884 32
1885 6
1886 32
1887 32
1888 17
1889 12
1890 28
1891 16
1892 24
1893 30
1894 12
1895 24
1896 25
1896 cholera 6