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REMARKS ON VARIOUS DEATH CAUSES.
Infective Diseases.
Epidemic. There were 173 deaths due to this class
of diseases, equalling a death rate of 1.54 per 1,000;
the rate last year was 1.14, and was l-47 and I-65 in
1908 and 1907 respectively.
The Zymotic Death Rate for the County of London
equals 1.14 per 1,000, wherein it varied from 0.46 in
Hampstead, 0.47 in the City of Westminster, 0.48 in
the City of London, 0.58 in Stoke Ncwington, 0.61 in
Wandsworth and Woolwich, up to 1.90 in Shoreditch,
1.92 in Finsbury, 2.02 in Southwark, and 2.44 in
Bermondsey.
The increase in our Zymotic Death Rate appears to
be chiefly due to a serious outbreak of measles, which
occasioned a total of 47 deaths, and especially to the
large number of fatalities from whooping cough; there
having been a total of 5 6 such deaths during the year,
and in the case of the latter disease being 30 above the
average number of deaths for the last five years.
Locally the Zymotic Death Rate varied from 0-83 in
Kidbrooke (0-00 in 1909), 0 33 in Charlton (1-01 in
1909), 1-46 in East Greenwich (1-03 in 1909), 1-67
in West Greenwich (0-74 in 1909), up to 2-80 in St.
St. Nicholas (2 01 in 1909).
Small-Pox. There were no deaths from this disease
in 1910, this being the eighth year since a death occurred
from this cause in the Borough.
Measles. Forty-seven deaths were ascribed as due to
this disease, two only of the patients being over five
years of age; compared with 3 8 which occurred in 1909,