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Considering the Zymotic diseases in detail, it is seen that
there was no death from Small Pox. There were two deaths from
this disease in 1902; there have been none since that year.
From Scarlet Fever there was one death. In recent years
Scarlet Fever has not been an important cause of mortality, the
highest number of deaths in any one year being 6 in 1906.
Diphtheria caused 6 deaths.—A higher number than for two
or three years past, but still below the average number of deaths
annually from this disease.
Enteric Fever caused only one death, a decrease of two as
compared with 1913.
There were 15 more deaths from Diarrhoea. This mortality
is almost entirely responsible for the slight increase in the Zymotic
death-rate.
There were 11 less deaths from Measles and 4 less from
Whooping Cough.
Infantile Mortality.—During the year 1914 there were 88
deaths of infants under 1 year of age, as against 81 in 1913, and
an average of 108 for the ten years 1904-1913.
The infantile mortality for the year 1914, i.e., deaths under
1 year of age per 1,000 births, is 57 in Hornsey. In 1913 the
infantile mortality rate was 56, and the average rate for the 20
years 1894-1913 was 85, the highest being 133 in 1895, and the
lowest 56 in 1913.
Thus the infantile mortality is again a very favourable one,
and only in 1913 has the rate been lower.