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Homerton, 8 to Stockwell, and 10 to Hampstead. Whilst
few or none of the persons thus sent could be considered
paupers, or regarded themselves as such, all belonged
to the humbler ranks of the community.
Scarlet-fever, which prevailed in an epidemic form
in the previous year, claimed its tale of victims (35),
and will continue to do so until the fitful ravages it
annually makes are more generally known, and the
fearful character of the disease more fully appreciated,
even when it appears under the milder guise and the
blander designation of "only scarlatina." Surely the
time has arrived when medical men, without needlessly
alarming the friends of their patients, can
afford to call diseases by names "understanded by
the people," and to tell them, in the interest of the
community at large, that scarlatina is the latinized
term for scarlet-fever, and that, in its mildest form, it is
capable of producing in others the same disease of the
most malignant character.
Nearly one-third (91) of the total of these deaths
(286) was due to measles, a disease which ordinarily
terminates favorably, unless complicated during its
progress or towards its decline, when the danger is
greater, by the occurrence of bronchial or pulmonary
inflammation, the consequence too frequently of exposure
to cold.
Of the 60 deaths from whooping-cough, 48 were
those of children of parents, who it may be assumed
from their occupation as stated in the death-returns
J. MORTON, PRINTER, STAR STREET, EDGWARE ROAD.