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July 5th, the annual death-rate from all causes has been considerably
below the average number in the corresponding week of the last ten
years. The annual death-rate from all causes, which had been equal
to 19.5, 19, and 18.3 per 1,000 in the preceding weeks, further declined
last week to 17.4, the lowest rate that has prevailed in London since
the middle of September, 1877. In the week ended July 12th the rate
of mortality fell to 17.0 per 1,000, and in the week ended July 19th it
was 17.2 per 1,000.
The fatal cases of diarrhœa in the twenty towns were, for the
week ended 12th July, only 47 against 669, 243 and 602 in the corresponding
weeks of the three years 1876-7-8. In London the deaths
from diarrhœa for the weeks ended July 5th, 12th, 19th, were respectively
13, 29, 27. The fatal cases of Diarrhœa, which had been 13
and 29 in the two previous weeks, did not exceed 27 last week, and
were as many as 263 below the corrected average for the correspondng
week of the last ten years. The nearest approach says the
Registrar-General, during the past thirty years, to so small a
fatality of diarrhœa during the first three weeks of July occurred in
1860, when the temperature was considerably below the average.
Table of Weekly Mortality, &c., in London and in the
Whitechapel District.