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Deaths in Certain Classes of Diseases.
Class 1.—Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
This class of diseases, called "Zymotic," comprises in
the Registrar-General's arrangement of the causes of
death, six orders. The first and second orders ("miasmatic"
and "diarrhoeal") include the diseases which
the Registrar-General describes as the seven principal
diseases of the zymotic class; the term "fever" includes
"typhus," "enteric or typhoid" and "simple continued
forms of fever."
The zymotic death-rate is made up from these seven
diseases, as they are considered to be more or less of a
preventable character.
In St. Giles' District the 63 deaths were equal to a
zymotic death-rate of 1.6 per 1,000, a rate 0.6 per 1,000
lower than the one for the preceding year, and 0.5
lower than the rate for the decennial average.
In Registration London the same diseases caused
11,513 deaths, equal to a rate of 2 56 per 1,000.
In England and Wales 67,051 deaths were attributed
to these zymotic diseases, corresponding to a rate of
2T5 per 1,000 living, against 2.17 and 2.21 respectively
in the preceding two years.