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From Table V. we see that the total number of deaths
from the 7 principal zymotic diseases and cholera was
very low indeed, lower than that of any other year on
record, except last year, and very nearly as low as that.
There was no death from small-pox recorded during the
year; and this is the first time, so far as I am aware, that
small-pox has been quite absent from the mortality tables.
Each one of the 7 principal zymotic diseases caused fewer
deaths than the average for the previous 6 years, and from
simple cholera there were 2 deaths, which is almost exactly
the average number.
The proportion of deaths of this kind to every 1,000
deaths from all causes was 95, whereas it was 147 for
London generally, showing that our Parish is comparatively
very free from epidemic diseases.
Measles and whooping-cough were rather less prevalent
than in 1873; but scarlet fever was decidedly more prevalent,
and caused 32 deaths, as against only 9 last year. The
average annual number of deaths from this disease, during
the 6 years 1868-73, was 52, so that 32 is really a small
number, though so much larger than the one for last year.
The number of deaths from scarlet fever increased each
quarter, thus—first quarter, 2; second quarter, 3; third
quarter, 9; and fourth quarter, 18 deaths; and the disease
became epidemic in London towards the latter part of the
year.
From "fever" there were 25 deaths registered, viz.,
1 from typhus, 18 from enteric (typhoid), and 6 from simple
continued fever. The one from typhus fever was, like the
one recorded last year, an isolated case.
The number of Violent Deaths was 75, or 4.4 per
cent. of the total deaths. This is a higher per-centage than