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105
Parish of Wandsworth.
Zymotic Diseases.
From diseases of the zymotic class, there
occurred during the year 128 deaths, 59 of males
and. 69 of females. This is a decrease of 53 deaths
compared with 1896, and is 25.7 under the corrected
decennial average. Last year the number of these deaths
was high owing to the prevalence of measles and
whooping cough, while in 1897, although the number of
deaths was fewer, yet it is unduly raised on account of
the epidemic of diphtheria, to which reference will be
made later on in this report. The number of deaths
which occurred from the notifiable diseases, viz., from
scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, puerperal fever,
and erysipelas was 46 compared with 20 in 1896, and
19 in 1895. This increase was wholly due to the
number of deaths from diphtheria.
Table IV. shows the number of deaths from the
seven principal epidemic diseases, the total deaths from
all zymotic diseases, the zymotic death-rate per 1,000,
the total deaths from all causes, and the percentage of
deaths from all zymotic diseases to deaths from all
causes for the year, as well as for the 10 preceding years,
and also the number above or below the corrected
decennial average.