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living, and were equivalent to 2.7 per cent of the total deaths
registered. The deaths from this disease in all London were equal
to an annual rate of .6 per 1000 persons living, and were equivalent
to 2.8 per cent of the total deaths registered. Two cases were
removed by your Board to the Western District Hospital at
Stockwell. In three cases the offer to remove the patient was
refused. and in 64 the first information obtained was in the death
returns. In all the cases which occurred a careful system of
disinfection was carried out, and the sanitary condition of the
dwelling was seen to.
Simple Continued Fever.
There were three cases of simple continued fever reported, all of
which occurred in the parish of Hammersmith, against 3 registered
in the previous year, which also occurred in the Hammersmith
parish. All of these cases last year were reported in the death
returns. These deaths were equal to an annual rate of .02 per
1000 persons living, and were equivalent to -1 per cent of the total
deaths registered. The deaths from this disease in all London
were equal to an annual rate of .02 per 1000 persons living and
were equivalent to -.1 per cent of the total deaths registered. In
all the cases reported a careful system of disinfection was carried
out by your officers, and the sanitary condition of the houses where
the patients had resided was seen to.
Diarrhoea.
There were 72 deaths from diarrhoea reported last year, of which
there were 25 in the parish of Fulham, and 47 in the parish of
Hammersmith, against 139 in the year previous, of which there
were 49 in the parish of Fulham, and 90 in the parish of Hammersmith.
In all the cases reported the houses where the patients
had resided were carefully inspected, and where sanitary defects
were found to exist the owner or occupier of the premises was
required to remedy the defect. These deaths last year were equal
to an annual rate of .6 per 1000 persons living and were equivalent
to 2.9 per cent of the total deaths registered. The deaths from
diarrhoea in all London were equal to an annual rate of 5 per
1000 persons living and were equivalent to 2.6 percent of the total
deaths registered.
English Cholera.
There were two deaths registered from English Cholera last year,
both of which occurred in the parish of Fulham, against no case
registered in the previous year. These deaths were equal to an
annual rate of .02 per 1000 persons living, and were equivalent to
.08 per cent of the total deaths registered. The deaths from
English Cholera in all London were equal to an annual rate of
.02 per 1000 persons living, and were equivalent to .09 per cent of
the total deaths registered.
Violent Deaths.
There were 83 deaths from violence of which there were 22 in