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The above table shows that the deaths last year from measels, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, and whooping cough, were collectively decreased,
212, but that the deaths fiom typhus fever, enteric fever, simple continued
fever, diarrhœa aud English cholera, were collectively increased
67.
Smallpox.
During last year no case of smallpox was reported in this district.
The total number of deaths from smallpox, which took place in London
last year was 134. This represents about 1340 persons attacked with
the disease. Of the deaths which occurred there was only one in the
western group of districts, the disease being confined to the north and
south districts of London. The cases of smallpox reported in the
Fulham district during the last seven years, 1877 to 1883, were
1877=328, 1878=266, 1879=166, 1880=51, 1881=327, 1882=16,
and in 1883=0. Since I presented to you my last Annual Report
no new Act has been passed in reference to the notification and isolation
of infectious diseases occurring in London. A very great improvement
of late years has taken place in this district, with regard to the
way in which outbreaks of smallpox have been dealt with, but it will
never be possible to deal with outbreaks of this disease in a satisfactory
manner until some such Act shall have become law.
Chicken Pox.
During last year four cases of chicken pox were reported in this district,
two in the parish of Hammersmith, and two in the parish of
Fulham, against no case in the previous year. The four cases last