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Small Pox.—Twenty nine deaths occurred from this disease,
of which number 25 occurred in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board. During the year 174 cases came to my knowledge.
Measles.—Seven deaths only were registered from Measles;
the Annual average of the last ten years having been 41.
Scarlet Fever caused 74 deaths of which number 13 occurred
in Hospital. The Annual average for the last ten years was 58 deaths.
Diphtheria.—Four deaths occurred from diphtheria; the annual
average for the last ten years having been 7.
Whooping Cough.—Fifty-two deaths were registered from
this disease, a number slightly below the decennial average.
Fever caused 18 deaths. Thirty cases were reported to me, of
which number, 29 were Enteric and 1 Typhus.
Diarrhœa caused 53 deaths, a number slightly below the
average of the last ten years.
Sanitary Work, &c.
For a detached account of the routine Sanitary Work performed
during the year, see Table VI.
The powers of the Board under the 35th Section of the Sanitary
Act of 1866, were the subject of discussion early in the year. So far
back as 1867 the Board had made Regulations under the Act regarding
Houses let in Lodgings or occupied by more than one family, but
inasmuch as the principal matters referred to in the Regulations were
already the subject of the attention of the Sanitary Staff it had not been
deemed necessary to put them into force. The condition of the
District has however altered much of late years. Many houses that
at the time of the framing of the Regulations were occupied by one
family have been let out in tenements and your Board was of
opinion that the time had arrived at which it had become desirable
to put the Regulations in force in their entirety, and arrangements