With the exception of the City, Stepney, and the Strand, there are only two registration districts in the whole country which have a child mortality over 90, viz., Manchester (93) and Liverpool (114). To Liverpool therefore belongs the distinction of being the most unwholesome place for little children in the whole country, and the 'Strand,' which constitutes the very centre of London, comes next. Let us examine these figures more closely, and let us throw the child mortality of Liverpool and the Strand into tabular form, and contrast them with the registration district of Andover, in Hampshire, a district which I select for reasons which will appear later. Table Legend: A = Smallpox B = Measles C = Scarlet fever D = Diphtheria E = Whooping cough F = Fever G = Diarrhœa H = Tuberculosis Disease I = Respiratory Disease ----------+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+------+------+ | All | | | | | | | | | | |Causes | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | ----------+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+------+------+ Liverpool |114,253| 29|9,492|2,966| 852|5,894| 483|9,818| 7,138|26,080| Strand |109,596| 38|6,626|1,828|4,760|6,359| 76|7,692|11,881|30,122| Andover | 32,260| 0|1,227| 307| 225|2,505| 153|1,074| 2,096| 7,209| ----------+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+------+------+ From this table it appears that the mortality from measles, scarlet-fever, and diarrhœa was greater in Liverpool than in the Strand; but that the other diseases scheduled were more fatal in the Strand than in Liverpool. We have previously pointed out that the deaths of children from tuberculous and respiratory diseases are greater in London than in any other county, and now we find that the death-rate of children from these two classes of diseases amounted in the 'Strand' to 42,003, far and away the highest figure in the country, Liverpool coming second with 33,218. The death-rate of children from the same causes in Andover was only 9,305, considerably less than a quarter of the Strand death-rate. Thanks to vaccination and the purity of the water-supply the mortality in the Strand from small-pox and fever is very small, but the mortality of children from the acute air-borne contagia (measles, whooping cough, scarlet-fever, and diphtheria), and still more from the chronic air-borne contagia, is fearful to contemplate. The big mortality from tuberculous disease forces upon us the reflection that a large number of children who become tuberculous in the 'Strand' do not die within the age limits with which we are concerned, but drop off later in life after years of invalidism and suffering. We have seen that children under five are decimated yearly in the Strand. How many more are crippled for life?