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270
The following deaths occurred at the undermentioned
places, viz.:—
Hospitals.
Prisons.
Barracks.
Westminster
209
Millbank
12
Wellington
1
Station
8
Her Majesty's
1
Hyde Park
2
Grosvenor
3
...
...
Coldstreams
1
...
...
221
13
3
The following deaths occurred at the undermentioned
ages, viz. :—
Above sixty, 98; above seventy, 44; above eighty, 17;
above ninety, 1.
The following is a table of deaths from zymotic causes
during the past three years:—
1887
1888
1889
Small Pox
...
...
...
Measles
8
34
27
Scarlet Fever
18
9
3
Whooping Cough
40
54
33
Diarrhœa
58
68
31
Dysentery
...
...
...
Cholera
1
...
...
Fever
6
...
3
131
165
97
The above table shows a decrease in reference to the
previous year of 68 deaths arising from zymotic diseases, and
on examination of the table of deaths a diminution of 316 as
compared with the previous year.
The death rate for the year is 19 per thousand, the
previous year being 19.1.
In October, 1888, several cases of Diphtheria were met
with, many of them terminating fatally, and this continued
more or less until January of the present year, when the
disease practically subsided. In January, however, a special
epidemic of Measles occurred, resulting in no less than 21
deaths, out of which 15 cases were communicated to me by
the local surgeons, this information being of such value that
I was enabled to have all the houses in which the disease
occurred critically examined, and the sanitary defects remedied.
Diphtheria has now quite subsided, but the epidemic of
Measles continues. Every effort is being made to arrest its
course, and strict injunctions have been given to parents to
prevent the intermingling of children so affected as far as is
possible. The principal Infant School has been for a time
closed, and every house has been inspected, and, where
necessary, has been disinfected and cleansed.