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(indeed, some say more so) to be followed by dropsy as the severe
ones. Persons who have been the subject of Scarlet fever should be
carefully guarded against any exposure to cold until the process of
desquamation or peeling, which almost invariably follows the acute
stage, is completed,
DIPHTHERIA.
(Decennial Average 7.2).
Twelve deaths were registered as from this cause, two of them were
from that peculiar form of paralysis which is sometimes a result of
this disease.
FEVER,
(Decennial Average 64.0,
The deaths from fever were 56, against 51 last year, a considerable
increase. Of the deaths registered in the parish, 33 were Typhoid,
nine simple fever, and one Typhus, The remaining cases occurred
amongst persons removed from this parish to the Asylums Board
Hospitals, and as the returns furnished to the Guardians make no
distinction between the different kinds of fever, I have been unable
to class them.
The one death registered from Typhus occurred at the Mission
Hospital, Friars Mount. The patient before admission to the hospital
had resided in the Old Kent Road; the disease was, therefore, not
contracted in this parish, and is excluded from the total number of
deaths. Six of the Typhoid cases were very young children : for this
reason there is considerable doubt in my mind as to the accuracy of
the certificate.
WHOOPING COUGH.
(Decennial Average 119.9).
This disease was extremely fatal, and caused the large number of
147 deaths—considerably over the average; 143 of these were amongst
young children.
DIARRHCEA.
(Decennial Average 135.7).
Seventy deaths were recorded as from this cause, two of which were
registered as Cholera. The very low temperature prevailing throughout
the summer accounts for this comparatively small mortality.