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It will be noted that there is a large increase in these
two diseases, an increase amounting to 369, which goes far
towards accounting for the augmented death-rate. The weather
must be held largely responsible in this respect, for, as I
have mentioned above, the coldness of the winter and the
heat of the summer had a most favourable effect on the
prevalence and increased mortality of lung troubles in the first
case and of diarrhoea in the second.
Tables X. and XI. give the annual mortality of the socalled
zymotic diseases from the year 1856. The figures for the
last six years being shown quarter by quarter. In Table XI. A. is
given the mortality from these diseases for the whole of London,
from this it will be seen that they all, with the exception of
Influenza, show a decrease. It is, however, necessary to
study them in detail in Camberwell. Hooping cough caused 61
deaths, as compared with 126 in 1894 and 104 in 1893. Thirteen
of these deaths occurred in the first quarter, 22 in the second,
7 in the third, and 19 in the fourth; the figures for 1894 being
respectively 29, 47, 41 and 9. The deaths from this disease
amounted to 1 in Dulwich, 7 in Camberwell, 19 in Peckham
and 34 in St. George's. Measles caused 100 deaths, against
164 in 1894 and 78 in 1893. In Dulwich there were no fatal
cases, 27 occurred in Camberwell, 18 in Peckham and 55 in
St. George's. They were distributed among the quarters of the
year as follows: —3 occurred in the first, 3 in the second, 23 in
the third and 71 in the fourth.
Scarlatina caused 47 deaths, against 45 in 1894 and 80
in 1893, the majority of these took place in the last quarter of
the year, when there were 20 deaths registered, as compared
with 10 fatal cases in the third quarter, 9 in the second and 8
in the first. Fevers, chiefly typhoid or enteric, caused 30 deaths,
against 21 in 1894 and 30 in 1893. Nine of these occurred in
the first quarter, 3 in the second, 12 in the third and 6 in the
last. Thirteen deaths belonged to Camberwell, 7 to Peckham
and 10 to St. George's.
In all, 7 deaths occurred from small pox, to which I
shall refer specially.
Diarrhœa and allied diseases caused 254 deaths, 231 of
these occurring in children under the age of 5 years. In 1894