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CLASS 1—ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Principal Zymotic Diseases.
The principal Zymotic diseases are seven in number, viz.,
smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria (including membranous
croup), whooping cough, "fevers" (including typhus,
typhoid or enteric, and simple or continued), and diarrhœa; and
the zymotic death-rate is made up from the total deaths from
these diseases. As a test of the sanitary condition of a Community,
the zymotic death-rate is of approximate value, and the
statistics for the Borough of Lambeth are very satisfactory for
1903, being 33.3 per cent, below the average (1891-1900).
In the Borough of Lambeth, during 1903, there were registered
540 deaths from the seven zymotic diseases, and of these 82
were strangers belonging to other districts, and 498 parishioners
who died within the Borough. 40 parishioners, however, died
without the Borough. Subtracting the strangers, and adding on
the parishioners who died without the Borough, there is a corrected
total of 498, giving a zymotic corrected death-rate of 1.6
per 1,000 inhabitants, the corrected rate for London being 1.8,
varying in the various Metropolitan Districts, as shown on page
9. The zymotic death-rates (corrected) for the different Registration
Sub-Districts of the Borough of Lambeth vary also, as
shown in Table D, which in addition gives the death-rates and
birth-rates for comparison. Lambeth Church, 2nd and 1st,
Waterloo Road and Kennington 1st, show the highest, and
Norwood, Brixton, and Kennington 2nd the lowest, zymotic
death-rates respectively. The corrected zymotic death-rate for
the Inner Districts is 2.6, and for the Outer, 1.2—a difference
explainable, as before, from the crowding and absence of proper
means of home isolation and nursing in the former, as compared
with the 1; later, Districts. Crowded Districts naturally suffer
more in this respect than those more sparsely populated..