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to an annual death-rate of 1.5 per 1,000. In London the rate
was 0.56 in the 27 largest provincial towns ; it ranged from
0 05 in Birkenhead to 5.0l in Blackburn. In St. Helens it
was no less than 9.5.
Scarlet Fever.—Four cases were removed to Stockwell,
one (a non-parishioner) from St. Mary's Hospital, and three
from St. Mary's Sub-district.
Whooping Cough.—In Paddington, of the zymoses next in
point of fatality to measles was whooping cough, although
throughout the country the deaths from whooping cough
were far more numerous than from measles.
Typhoid Fever.—Four cases were removed to Stock well
from St. Marv's Sub.district.
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Diseases of the Respiratory Organs.—Notwithstanding
the mildness of the winter the deaths from these diseases
were more numerous than during the corresponding quarter
of last year. In the case of the very young and the aged,
the fogs in the beginning of the quarter effected those fatal
results which commonly follow from a persistently low
temperature.