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The Zymotic death-rate is equal to 018 per thousand of the
population.
Considering the Zymotic diseases in detail, it is seen that
thera was no death from Small Pox. There were two deaths
from this disease in 1902; there have been none since that year.
There were 2 deaths from Scarlet Fever. 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 8 deaths.
There was 1 death from Enteric Fever.
There were 11 deaths from Diarrhoea, and Enteritis.
There were no deaths from Measles or Whooping Cough.
Infantile Mortality.—During the year 1919 there were 76
deaths of infants under one year of age, as against 64 in 1918,
and an average of 86 for the ten years 1909-1918.
The infantile mortality for the year 1919, i.e., deaths under
one year of age per 1,000 births is 64 in Hornsey. In 1918 the
infantile mortality rate was 61 and the average rate for the twenty
years 1899-1918 was 74, the highest being 106 in 1899, and the
lowest 46 in 1916.
The Infantile Mortality for England and Wales is 89, and of
the 96 Great Towns 93.