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The diseases described in the above list as the " principal zymotic diseases," are small-pox,
measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, enteric fever (including fever not otherwise
defined) and diarrhoea ; together they were responsible for 359 deaths, or considerably more than
double the numoer of deaths from the same causes that occurred in the year 1910. Serious
outbreaks of measles and epidemic diarrhoea have been responsible for this heavy mortality from
the zymotic diseases which has taken the great majority of its victims from the child population
under the age of five years. One fourth of the total number of deaths were registered as due to
diseases of the heart or the organs of respiration. Tuberculosis, a preventable disease, caused more
than 200 deaths, of which 155 were due to tuberculosis of the lungs. It should also be noted that
cancer was the cause of 197 deaths, as compared with 179 deaths from the same disease in the
previous year. The periods of life in which the various causes of death claim the majority of their
victims are indicated in Table VII. Appendix, p. 85, and except in the case of deaths under the
age of one year will be considered in the section devoted to the prevalence of disease in the Borough
during the year.
The number of deaths and the death-rates from each of the seven principal zymotic diseases in
Kensington together with the zymotic death-rates for London and Kensington will be found in
Tables IX. and X. Appendix, p. 92, arranged in quinquennial periods since 1871.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.