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The decrease was shown principally in Scarlatina, which fell from 452
to 107; Whooping Cough from 172 to 66; Measles from 76 to 38;
Fever from 93 to 77. There was a slight increase in the deaths from
Diarrhoea, which rose from 148 to 164; and so-registered Cholera from
4 to 9. Upon investigation, however, I found these cases to he English
Cholera, and not at all of the Asiatic type.
The disease which showed the greatest increase in the number of deaths
was Small Pox (see Appendix), which carried off 252 during the past
year, against only 2 in that preceding; yet, nevertheless, our total deaths
. from Zymotic disease were fewer in number during the year by 248.
The total death rate for the whole of London during the past year was
24.12 per 1000, or 1 person died of every 41 living. The average for
the Eastern Districts was 25.38 per 1000, or 1 died in every 38 living.
The total death rate for Bethnal Green during the .same period was 24
per 1000, or 1 in every 41.5 living, 1 death in every 4 being from Zymotic
disease.
This shows our death rate during the year to have been slightly under
the average of the whole Metropolis, and 1.38 per 1000 under that of the
Eastern group of Districts.
For the year ending March, 1870, the average death rate for the whole
of London was 24.66 per 1000, or 1 person died of every 40.6 living. For