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DIPHTHERIA (including Membranous Croup).
(Decennial Average, 46.0).
The number of cases reported to me under these two heads was
567. I found it impossible to separate the Membranous Croup
from the Diphtheria cases, as when wo get two certificates for the
same person (a not uncommon occurrence), as often as not tho
disease is returned by one medical gentleman as Croup and by tho j
other as Diphtheria. Looking at it from a Sanitary point of view
I have long been in the habit of taking the same precautions
whichever of these two diseases has been reported to me.
The number of deaths was 119, a case mortality of 21 per cent.,
and a mortality of 09.3 per thousand on the estimated population
at all ages.
. Of the deaths 97 were amongst young children aged less than
five years; tills was 513 per thousand on the estimated population
of young children.
The general Metropolitan death rato was 044 per thousand
living, and was the highest yet recorded.
WHOOPING COUGH.
(Decennial Average, 122 4).
Whooping Cough caused 122 deaths, all except four being
amongst young children, and making a mortality of 6.2 per
thousand on tho estimated population of young children.
MEASLES.
(Decennial Average, 102 9).
Measles caused 131 deaths, all but six being amongst young
children. This is a mortality of 6.61 per thousand children alive.
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
A total of 1954 cases have been notified during the year. The
numbers are shewn month by month, together with the Hospital
admissions and discharges in tho following table. The usual spot
maps shewing tho distribution of the cases are also submitted.