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Tubercular diseases, including pulmonary consumption,
caused 579 deaths, and cancerous diseases 181, against
680 and 193 respectively in the previous year.
Inflammatory affections of the lungs caused 716
deaths, or 224 fewer than in 1892, and diarrhœal affections
115 or 98 fewer than in the year before.
The mortality due to the so-called "zymotic"
diseases shows for the most part a marked increase as compared
with that of the previous year. For full details
respecting these diseases I must refer not only to Tables
IX. and X., but also to Table XI., which displays the
annual mortality referred to these diseases ever since the
constitution of the Vestry at the beginning of the year
1856, and to Table XII. in which the mortality of the
same diseases is shown quarter by quarter for the last six
years.
Hooping cough caused 126 deaths, against 104 in
1893 and 128 in 1892. 29 deaths occurred in the first
quarter of the year, 47 in the second, 41 in the third, and
only 9 in the fourth. It caused 45 in Camberwell, 38 in
Peckham, and 43 in St. George's.
Measles caused 164 deaths, against 78 in 1893 and
189 in 1892. 16 occurred in the first quarter of the year,
96 in the second, 45 in the third, and only 7 in the fourth.
26 were referred to Camberwell, 70 to Peckham, and 68 to
St. George's.
Scarlet fever caused 45 deaths, against 80 in 1893,
and 63 in 1892. 14 occurred during the first quarter of the
year, 13 during the second, 13 during the third, and only
5 during the fourth. 12 took place in Camberwell, 12 in
Peckham, and 21 in St. George's.