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Re-port of the Medical Officer of Health.
The total deaths from these diseases, 434, compares very
favourably with previous years. This number is 101 under the
number for 1902 and 66.8 below the corrected decennial average.
Only three of the diseases, Measles, Whooping Cough, and
Diarrhoea show an increase compared with last year, and three,
Measles, Whooping Cough and other Zymotics, compared with the
corrected decennial average.
There were no deaths from Small-pox, and Scarlet Fever,
Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, and Influenza show a satisfactory
decrease, especially noticeable in the case of Diphtheria.
The death-rate per 1,000 from all these Zymotic diseases was
172 per 1,000, compared with 2.18 in 1902, 1.81 in 1901, and 2.12
in 1900.
The death-rate from the principal Zymotic diseases, viz.:—
Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria,
Enteric Fever, and Diarrhoea was 1.49 per 1,000, compared with
1.68 in 1902 and 155 in 1901.
The rate in London from these diseases was 1.77 per 1,000,
compared with 2.21 in 1902.
In out-lying institutions 32 deaths were registered as having
been caused by these diseases, (13 belonging to Clapham, four to
Putney, five to Streatham, three to Tooting, and seven to Wandsworth).
In 1902, 69 deaths occurred, and in 1901 51, but in 1902 the
number of deaths from Small-pox was the chief cause of the
increase.
Of these 15 occurred in the Union Infirmary, eight from
Whooping Cough, three from Measles, three from Erysipelas, and
one from other Septic diseases; ten in General and Special
Hospitals, one from Whooping Cough, one from Diphtheria, one
from Enteric Fever, one from Diarrhoea, one from Erysipelas, one
from Puerperal Fever, and four from other Septic diseases; and
seven in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, two
from Scarlet Fever, four from Whooping Cough, and one from
Croup.
In internal institutions 55 deaths of persons not belonging to
the Borough occurred in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan