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ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The Registrar-General classifies under this heading _Small-
Pox, Scarlet Fever, Measles, Diphtheria, Whooping-Cough,
"Fever" (Typhus, Enteric and Continued), Diarrhœa, Plague.
The number of deaths registered from these Zymotic diseases
amounted to 211, as compared with 257 for the previous year.
The average deaths from Zymotic diseases was 1.89 per 1,000
persons living, as compared with 2.32 for the previous year,
and 2.21 for the County of London, and for seventy-six of the
largest towns in England per 1,000 persons living 2.12.
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The number of Notifications received during the year, under
the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, was
*2,456, as compared with 1,116 for the previous year. Table
NO.13 gives a detailed account of the Notification of Infectious
Diseases during the year and the number of cases notified in
each district and those removed to hospital from each district.
SMALL-POX.
The disease appears to have made its appearance in London
during the month of June, 1901, and is said to have been
introduced from Paris. No less than 1,700 cases were reported
in London at the close of the year 1901, of these the Borough
of Deptford contributed but 4 (1 in October, 2 in November,
and 1 in December).
*This large increase is due to the fact that Chicken-Pox was made a
notifiable disease from February 7th.