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11
1859.
Names of Diseases.
St. James's
Square.
Golden
Square.
Berwick
Street.
Total.
Small Pox
1
1
2
4
Measles
4
10
18
38
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria
5
16
10
31
Hooping Cough
5
8
9
22
Diarrhœa
6
8
6
20
Typhus
1
3
2
6
Total
22
52
47
121
I860.
Small Pox
• •
4
• •
4
Measles
1
• •
7
8
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria
2
8
6
16
Hoopjng Cough
2
15
17
34
Diarrhoea
• •
4
1
5
Typhus
• •
8
5
13
Total
5
39
36
80
From these Tables we find, that on the average of
the last six years, there has been 96 deaths from
zymotic disease. The death from these diseases
last year was, therefore, highly favourable. In the
year 1860 the greatest death occurred from hooping
cough, which shews a larger number than any year
since 1855; whilst a smaller number of deaths
occurred in this year from diarrhoea and measles
than in any of the preceding five years. Scarlet
fever also came off fewer than in any of the five
preceding years, except 1857.
In my periodical Reports I have often expressed
the conviction, that if more care was taken in preventing
the contact of uninfected persons with those