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had risen to 2,600 at the end of November, after which it declined, and was
2,041 at the end of the year. The admissions, which had been 531, 475, and
688 in the lirst three quarters of the year, rose to 2,187 during the last three
months of 1887- Measles showed the highest proportional fatality in Hammersmith,
Chelsea, Fulham, St. George, Southwark, Stepney, and St. George-inthe-East;
scarlet fever in Fulham, St. Giles, Lambeth, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey
and Newington; diphtheria in Westminster, Lambeth, Hammersmith, and
St. Giles; whooping-cough in Shoreditch, Newington, Stepney, and Mile End
Old Town; 'fever' in Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, St. George-in-the-East»
Chelsea, and St. Luke's; and diarrhoea in Clerkenwell, Stepney, Mile End Old
Town, Whitechapel, and St. Saviour, Southwark. Only 9 deaths were referred
to small-pox in the metropolis during the whole of 1887, the lowest number on
record; of these, 4 belonged to South London, 2 to West, 2 to East, and 1 to
Central London. Sixty-three small-pox patients were under treatment during
the year under notice in the Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals, of whom 30 were
admitted during the last three months of the year.
" Infant mortality in London during 1887, measured by the proportion of
deaths under one year of age to births registered, was equal to 158 per 1,000,
against an average rate of 152 in the preceding ten years 1877-86. While the
rate of infant mortality did not exceed 107 per 1,000 in Hampstead, 110 in
Plumstead, 126 in Paddington and in Lewisham, and 138 in Marylebone, it
ranged upwards in the other sanitary districts to 202 in Strand, 215 in Stepney,
225 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 228 in Holborn, and 270 in St. Olave, Southwark."