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a mortality on the enumerated population of 0.53; 51 of these.
deaths were amongst young children aged less than five years;
this was 2.66 per thousand on the estimated population of young
children. The general mortality all over London for this disease
was 0.32 per thousand living at all ages.
WHOOPING COUGH.
(Decennial average 119.8 deaths).
Whooping Cough caused 128 deaths, all except five amongst
young children, a mortality on the estimated population of young
children of 6.6 per thousand.
MEASLES.
('Decennial average 111.4 deaths).
Measles caused 100 deaths, all except five being amongst young
children, a mortality of 5.2 per thousand on the estimated population
of young children.
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
ACT.
This act has been repealed, but its clauses, with a few modifications,
have been incorporated in the new Public Health (London)
Act, 1891. A total of 1153 cases of Infectious diseases have been
reported during the year, under the old Act, by the various
medical gentlemen practising in the neighbourhood.
The numbers are shewn month by month, together with the Hospital
admissions and discharges in the following table.