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The Zymotic diseases showing increase over tlio preceding year
wore Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and Whooping Cough,
the mortality from each of whioh was nearly double that of 1887.
In the following table is shown the por-centago of each as
compared with the total number of Zymotic deaths.
TABLE F.
Small Pox
0.18 per cent., or 1 in 552.00 deaths.
Measles
22.43 „ „ 4.45 „
Scarlatina
21.74 ,, 4.60 „
Diphtheria
9.42 „ „ 16.61 „
Whooping Cough
30.25 „ 3.30 „
Typhus Fever
0.0 „ „ 0.00 „
Enteric Fever
3.62 „ „ 27.61 „
Simple Fever
0.18 „ ,, 552.00 ,,
Diarrhœa
12.14 „ „ 8 24 „
SMALL POX.
(Decennial average 36.1,).
The deaths from Small Pox registered in the whole of London
during the year were only nine, and this had also been the number
in the preceding year 1887.
In Bethnal Green a single death was registered; this was of a
child aged two years in Arbery Road on the 18th of February,
who was stated to have been vaccinated, and I was unable to trace
the source of infection.
Eleven cases of Small Pox, including the death above noted,
were reported to us during the year. The first case we heard of
was in Columbia Road; and was that of a child 20 months old.
Its mother assured me that it had been vaccinated. The eruption
appeared on the 12th of January, and the patient was removed on
the 16th to hospital. I could not trace the source of infection.
Next came the fatal case in February; then on the 27th of the
same month a young fellow, aged 24 years, was removed to the
Small Pox Hospital. I could not discover that he had been