1786 under treatment in the Metropolitan Asylums hospitals at the end of May, against 1111, 1084, and 960 at the end METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL SUNDAY of the three preceding months ; the weekly admissions FUND. averaged 160, against 136, 134, and 117 in the three pre- ceding months. Enteric fever was slightly more prevalent last month than in the preceding month ; among the various THE following is a record of some of the principal amounts metropolitan boroughs the greatest proportional prevalence that have been received in aid of the Fund up to the time of of this disease occurred in Fulham, City of Westminster, going to press on Thursday. The total sum then amounted and Greenwich. The number of enteric Shoreditch, Poplar, to .f.25,OOO. At the corresponding period last year the total fever patients under treatment in the Metropolitan Asylums which had been and 121 at the end of was iE24,OOO;- hospitals, 224, 162, B 8. d. the three preceding months, had further declined to 95 at Mr. George Herring ...... 10,000 0 0 the end of May ; the weekly admissions averaged 14 last Sir Fredk. L. Cook, Bart., M.P...... 4000 0 0 month, against 25, 18, and 16 in the three preceding St. Michael’s, Chester-square ...... 1228 0 0 months. Erysipelas was proportionally most prevalent in All Saints’, h n nismore-gar dens ...... 459 0 0 St. Mary’s, Bryanston-square ...... 272 0 0 St. Marylebone, Hackney, Holborn, Shoreditch, and Green- St. Nicholas, Chjslehurst ...... 269 0 0 wich. The 29 cases of puerperal fever included five in St. Paul’s Cathedral ...... 229 9 9 four in and three in Delta ...... 200 0 0 Stepney, Islington, Paddington. " "A. G. P." ...... 200 0 0 The statistics in the table relate to the deaths mortality Westminster Abbey ...... 177 0 0 All North Peckham of persons actually belonging to the various metropolitan Saints’, ...... 166 0 0 the deaths in the institu- Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill ...... 161 0 0 boroughs, occurring public Christ tions of London been distributed the various Church, Mayfair ...... 131 0 0 having among Holy Trinity, Roehampton ...... 104 0 0 boroughs in which the deceased persons had previously St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Westbourne-grove...... 101 0 0 resided. During the five weeks ending June lst the deaths A. T...... 100 0 0 St. John’s Wood Church ...... KO 0 0 of 6702 to London were Presbyterian persons belonging registered, equal St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Kensington...... 100 0 0 to an annual rate of and 15-4 per 1000, against 19’8, 18’2, The Earl ot Cranbrook ...... 50 0 0 Concert 17’6 per 1000 in the three preceding months. The lowest Sunday Society, Queen’s Hall ...... oo. 50 0 u death-rates last month in the various metropolitan boroughs Mr. Walter Cunliffe ...... 25 0 0 Mr. Fredk. Druce ...... 25 0 0 were 10’3 in 11’2 in Stoke 11 in Hampstead, Newington, Mr. Norman McCorquodale ...... 25 0 0 Wandsworth and in Lewisham, and 12-6 in Paddington and Mr. Alex. Miller ...... 25 0 0 and Mrs. Chas. E. in the rates were 18’5 in 18 8 in Mr. Layton ...... 42 0 0 Battersea ; highest Stepney, Dean the of in Shoreditch, in and in South- St. John’s, Ealing ...... 27 0 0 City London, Poplar, St. Mary’s, Finchley, Parish Church ...... 32 0 0 19’3 in and 22’1 in the wark, Bermondsey, Finsbury. During St. Mary’s Old Church. Stoke Newington ...... 36 0 0 five weeks of May 718 deaths were referred to the principal In Memoriam Crosby Lockwood, S.L. and D.E.L...... 20 0 0 St. Matthew’s, Brixton ...... zymotic diseases ; of these, one resulted from small-pox, 46 0 0 St. James’s, Camberwell ...... 31 0 0 202 from measles, 75 from scarlet fever, 90 from diphtheria, F. F...... 30 0 0 .2G9 from whooping-cough, 24 from enteric fever, 77 from St. Paul’s, Upper Holloway ...... 26 0 0 Mr. C. N. Steven diarrhceal diseases, and not one either from fever ...... 50 0 0 typhus St. Anne’s, Wandsworth ...... 51 0 0 or from ill-defined form of continued fever. No deaths any Mr. C. H. Hawkins ...... 1 21 0 0 of diseases in the from any these occurred last month City St. Luke’s, Battersea ...... 55 0 0 St. of London; among the various metropolitan boroughs they James’s, Garlick-hill ...... 28 0 0 caused the lowest death-rates in Kensington, Hampstead, St. Peter’s, Ealing ...... ,..... 22 0 0 East-hill, Wandsworth, Wesleyan ...... 21 0 0 Stoke and and the Newington, Lewisham, Woolwich, Brixton Independent Church ...... 60 0 0 St. Enfield highest rates in Fulham, Bethnal Green, Poplar, Marv Magdalene, ...... 31 0 0 Ewell Parish Church and All Saints .8outhwark, and Bermondsey. The fatal case of small-pox ...... 33 0 0 St. Matthew’s, Westminster ...... 20 0 0 was that of a person belonging to Bethnal Green. The 202 St. Peter’s, Clapham ,...... 26 0 0 deaths from measles showed a decline of 178 from the Orange-street Congregational Church ...... 37 0 0 St. average number in the corresponding periods of the 10 pre- John’s, Redhill ...... ,..... 46 0 0 St. Mary’s, Cuddington ...... 25 0 0 years ; this disease was most fatal Victoria Park Evidence ceding proportionally Christian Association ...... 71 0 0 in Chelsea, Poplar, Southwark, Deptford, and Greenwich. St. Mary’s, Boltons ...... 7 0 0 The 75 fatal cases of scarlet fever slightly exceeded the St. Mary’s, Hornsey-rise ...... 23 0 0 corrected the various Upper Holloway Baptist Church ...... , ... 21 0 0 average ; among metropolitan boroughs St. Jude’s, Upper Chelsea ...... 9 0 0 the greatest proportional mortality from this disease Hornsey.Willoughby-road Wesleyan Chapel...... 21 0 0 occurred in Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Poplar, Bermondsey, Highgate Presbyterian Church ...... 37 0 0 Camberwell, and Deptford. The 90 deaths from diphtheria St. John Baptist, Pinner ...... 26 0 0 St. Mary’s, Shortlands ...... 43 0 0 were about of only one-half the corrected average number ; Metropolitan Tabernacle ...... 50 0 0 this disease was proportionally most fatal in Paddington, All Saints’, Woodford Wells ...... " ... 22 0 U Hackney, Finsbury, Bethnal Green, and Holborn. The 24 St. Mary the Virgin, Putney ...... 25 0 0 Belgrave Church ...... 0 fatal cases of I I fever" showed a marked decline from the Presbyterian 25 0 St. Augustine’s, IIighbury...... ,..... 74 0 0 average number in the corresponding periods of the 10 pre- St. Luke’s, Deptford... oo...... ’" ... ’" 63 0 0 ceding years ; the highest "fever" death-rates occurred in West Wickham Churches ...... 44 0 0 the of and St. Michael’s, Barnes...... 20 0 0 City Westminster, Islington, Stepney, Bermondsey. St. Luke’s, West Norwood...... 38 0 0 The 77 deaths from diarrhceal diseases were almost to Park Hill equal Holly Wesleyan Church, Crouch ...... 26 0 0 the average number; these diseases were proportionally most Archway-road Wesleyan Church, Higbgate ...... 23 0 0 fatal in and Woolwich St. Clement’s, Ilford...... 20 0 0 Falham, Holborn, Finsbury, boroughs. Brentwood Parish Church it ...... 20 0 0 In conclusion, may be stated that the aggregate mortality Lemsford Parish Church ...... 62 0 0 St. Watford from these principal zymotic diseases in London during May Andrew’s, ...... 30 0 0 Beckenham Parish Church was nearly 29 per cent. below the average...... 63 0 0 Finchley Presbyterian Church ...... 30 0 0 Infant mortality in London last month, measured by the " B. C. M...... 25 0 0 proportion of deaths of children under one year of age to Trinity Presbyterian Church, Wimbledun oo..., ... 28 0 0 Beech Parish Church ...... was to 112 1000. The lowest High 26 0 0 registered births, equal per St. Westminster ...... ’" .., ... 22 0 0 rates of infant were recorded in the mortality Paddington, AllStephen’s, Saints’, Norfolk-square ...... 23 0 0 Keston Parish City of Westminster, St. Marylebone, Holborn, Wandsworth, Church ...... 22 0 0 and and the rates in St. Mary’s. Plaistow, Bromley ...... 50 0 0 Lewisham; highest Chelsea, Finsbury, Mitcham Parish Church and Camberwell. (moiety) ...... 29 0 0 Shoreditch, Bermondsey, St. Luke’s Parish Church, Chelsea...... 50 0 0 Merton Parish Church ...... 37 0 0 St. Paul’s, Forest Hill ...... 50 0 0 St. Saviour’s, Paddington ...... 63 0 0 A TABLET placed in the Church of St. Andrew, St. Thomas’s, Portman-square ...... 72 0 0 in of the late Dr. William the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Notting-hill ...... gt 0 0 Holborn, memory Marsden, St. John the Evangelist, Putney...... 50 0 (1 ’founder of the Royal Free Hospital, was unveiled on St. James the Less, Westminster...... 29 0 0 Parish Church Wednesday last by Archdeacon Sinclair. The tablet, which Bromley, Kent, ...... 50 0 0 St. Andrew’s, Leytonstone ...... 64 0 0 is set in one of the panels on the right of the entrance to Christ Church, ...... 44 0 0 the is the of the Cordwainers’ Newgate-street church, gift Company. Eaton Chapel, Eaton-square ...... 25 0 0