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Of the so-called zymotic diseases, 623 deaths were registered,
but of these 223 were of non-parishioners who had been removed
to the Metropolitan Asylum Small-pox Hospital at Fulham, for
the purpose of isolation. The corrected number, therefore, of
deaths from this class of diseases was 400, as compared with 405,
the corrected number of deaths registered from the same class of
diseases during the previous year. Thus we see that there was a
comparative decrease of five in the number of these deaths last
year, although there was an increase in the population to the
extent of 2,500 inhabitants. It is somewhat satisfactory to notice
that the actual number of deaths from this class of disease was
decreased, although there was a very severe epidemic of smallpox.
The corrected deaths from zymotic diseases registered last
year were equal to I7.8 per cent. of the total deaths of parishioners
registered, and were at the rate of 3.4 deaths per annum
per 1,000 living persons. The deaths from these diseases in the
whole of London were equal to 17.2 per cent. of the total
deaths registered and were at the rate of 3.6 per annum per
1,000 persons living. There was, therefore, last year in this
district a greater per centage of deaths from zymotic diseases
than in all London, as compared with the total number of deaths
registered, but a smaller proportion as compared with the population.
The higher per centage as compared with the total
deaths is attributable to the large proportion of poor inhabitants
in this district. There is always a greater fatality from these
diseases among the poor classes than among the rich. Of the
400 deaths from zymotic diseases which occurred last year, there
were 18 in St. Peter's, against 13 the previous year; 220 in St.
Paul's, against 228 the previous year; and 162 in Fulham,
against 164 the previous year. Thus we see that there was an
increase of 5 in the number of these deaths in St. Peter's and
a decrease of 8 and 2 in St. Paul's and Fulham respectively.
TABLE V.
The following table shows the deaths from zymotic diseases
(exclusive of those of non-parishioners that took place at the
Metropolitan Asylum Hospital at Fulham) registered in the
Fulham district in the years 1880-1881:—