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128 Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.

For England and Wales the death-rate for the year
was .39 per 1,000.
whooping Cough. 11 deaths occurred during the year, compared
with 27 in 1899, 25 in 1898, and 12 in 1897.
The number of deaths was thus 16 less than last year,
and 19.4 under the corrected decennial average.
The death-rate per 1,000 was .16 in 1900, and .40
in 1899, while for all London these rates were respectively
.42 and .38.
From Diarrhoea 60 deaths were registered
Diarrhœa. .
compared with 71 in 1899, 83 in 1898, and
48 in 1897. The corrected decennial average was 52.1.
Three deaths occurred in an external and one in an internal
institution, making a corrected total of 62, compared with
71 last year. 51 or 82.2 per cent. of the deaths were of
infants under one year.
The death-rate per 1,000 was corrected .94, compared
with 113 in 1899, 1.39 in 1898 and .85 in 1897. For
the whole of London the death-rate was .76 per 1,000, for
the 33 great towns .91, and for England and Wales .69.
The above figures do not accurately represent the
number of deaths that occur among infants during the