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19 were due to various forms of so-called puerperal fever.
These latter occurred chiefly in Camberwell and Peckham.
36 persons were stated to have died of erysipelas, carbuncle,
or pyæmia, against 40 in 1892.
Tubercular diseases, including pulmonary consumption,
caused 680 deaths, and cancerous diseases 193, against
656 and 180 respectively in the previous year.
Inflammatory affections of the lungs caused 1,040
deaths, or 47 more than in 1892, and diarrhæal affections
213, or 44 more than in the year before.
The mortality due to the so-called zymotic diseases
showed for the most part a decided increase on that of the
previous year. For full details in reference to these
affections 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 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 104 deaths against 128 in
1892 and 123 in 1891. It caused 1 death in Dulwich,
28 in Camberwell, 35 in Peckham, and 40 in St. George's.
Measles caused 78 deaths, against 189 in 1892, and
67 in 1891. It caused 12 deaths in Camberwell, 16 in
Peckham, and 50 in St. George's. The mortality from
hooping cough was pretty uniform during the first 9 months
of the year, and diminished considerably in the last 3.
Measles was chiefly fatal during the third quarter, and
almost died out in the fourth.