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Scarlet Fever.
Scarlet fever was more fatal than usual and
caused 67 deaths. 27 cases were sent to the hospitals;
2 to the London Fever Hospital, and 25 to
the hospital at Stockwell. Of the 27 cases 17 were
from St. Mary's and 10 from St John's sub-district.
Diphtheria.
Diphtheria was more fatal than usual and caused
26 deaths, being at the rate of 13.4 per 1,000 deaths;
in London the proportion was 6.9.
Whooping Cough.
Whooping cough, which in London was more
than usually fatal, caused 61 deaths, the proportion
of deaths to every 1,000 deaths being 31.5. In
London it was 35.0.
Fever.
The Registrar-General remarks that "evidence
of the improved sanitary condition of London is
afforded by the reduction of the mortality by fever,
the death rate from which has been reduced from
9.2 in the thirty years 1841-70 to 3.9 in the nine
years 1871-79; it was the cause of 1,099 deaths in
1879, a number considerably below the corrected
average."In Paddington typhoid fever caused 16
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