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DIARRHEA.
The deaths during the year from this disease numbered 101, as against
225 for the previous year. The continued coldness of the summer and
early autumn contributed in a large measure to this result. There was a
very marked diminution in the number of flies present with us during
the summer. These are largely influenced by the foul accumulations of
manure in stables and the filthy state of the contents of dustbins. The
fly pest is responsible in all probability for not only much of the summer
infant diarrhaea, but for a host of other diseases. London would be much
improved in health if the boroughs would adopt the continental method
of having the dustbins emptied once a day during the summer. With
regard to the storage and removal of manure, I am compelled to say that
there is a remarkable timidity on the part of sanitary officials in this
borough to put in force the powers possessed by them for the removal of
nuisance from foul manure which does so much harm to the comfort and
health of our inhabitants.
The annual death-rate from Diarrhaea per 1,000 living was 0.48.

TYPHUS FEVER.
No death occurred from this disease during the year, and no case
was notified.
MEASLES.
The deaths from Measles during the year numbered 112, as against
95, 154 and 191 for the previous three years.
The death-rate per 1,000 living was 0.53.

The Wards mostly affected were St. John's, St. Michael's and St.
Saviour's in the order named.