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85
by two the number registered in the previous year.
They were divided pretty equally among the several
quarters of the year.
Scarlet Fever was fatal in 78 cases in place of
177, and diminished in fatality as the year advanced;
33 cases having-died in the first quarter, 19 in the second,
20 in the third, and 7 in the fourth.
To Fever 31 deaths were assigned, a number less
by 9 than that of the year 1875. The deaths were
distributed pretty uniformly throughout the year.
Small Pox caused 23 deaths,instead of 1 as in the
previous year. No deaths from this disease occurred
in the first quarter, but 3 took place in the second, 5 in
the third, and 15 in the last. This gradual increase
corresponds with that which was taking place in
London generally, 7 deaths for the whole of the
Metropolis being recorded in the first quarter, 20 in
the second, 110 in the third, and 592 in the fourth.
It was during the last two quarters of the year that
the epidemic of Small Pox arose, which has become
much more serious during the present year, and the
statistics of which will appear mainly in my Report
for the year 1877.
Diarrhoea (which is sometimes regarded as a
zymotic disease) caused 120 deaths instead of 107;
and of these the great majority occurred, as usual, in