ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND

1890 The Lancet  
626 which had been 371 and 379 in the preceding two weeks, were last week 372; they included 170 from whooping-cough, 68 from measles, 52 from scarlet fever, 33 from diphtheria, 25 from "fever" (principally enteric), 24 from diarrhoea, and not one from small-pox. N death from any of these zymotic diseases was recorded during the week in Derby or in Leicester, while they caused the highest death-rates in Salford, Norwich, Bolton, and Sheffield. The greatest mortality from whooping-cough occurred
more » ... in Sheffield, Salford, Bristol, and Bolton; from measles in Liverpool, Manchester, and
doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(02)15569-3 fatcat:4s3woaerlrg5hcrvehk2pcsare