A small decline occurred in the number of notifications of infectious diseases in England and Wales during the week ending March 26. The largest falls were 336 for measles, from 29,018 to 28,682, 57 for whooping-cough, from 1,924 to 1,867, and 24 for scarlet fever, from 839 to 815. The largest declines in the incidence of measles were 422 in Lancashire, from 2,264 to 1,842, 348 in London, from 3,685 to 3,337, 239 in Derbyshire, from 1,053 to 814,' 184 in Lincolnshire, from 1,361 to 1,177, 145

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... Durham, from 986 to 841, 137 in Northuimberland, from 972 to 835, and 125 in Kent, from 1,206 to 1,081, and the largest rises were 540 in Warwickshire, from 2,370 to 2,910, 163 in Middlesex, from 1,411 to 1,574, and 119 in Leicestershire, from 87 to 206. The only large fall in the returns of scarlet fever was 37 in Yorkshire West Riding, from 104 to 67. The chief fluctuations in the trends of whooping-cough-were a rise of 41 in Cheshire, from 32 to 73, and a fall of 39 in