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The lessened mortality in Chelsea in 1896, as compared with 1895,
is attributable to the lesser prevalence of influenza, and a corresponding
diminution in the mortality from diseases of the respiratory organs.
The general death.rate would have been considerably lower had it not
been for the excessive prevalence of diphtheria and measles, which
caused a large number of deaths, and of infantile diarrhoea in July and
August, owing to the excessive heat and drought at that period of the
year.
The deaths of parishioners of Kensal Town numbered 396, equivalent
to a death.rate of 18.2 per 1,000, the death.rate of the home
district (1,453 deaths) being 19.0 per 1,000.
Zymotic death.rate.—The death.rate in Chelsea from the seven
principal zymotic diseases was 4.31 per 1,000 in 1896, the corresponding
rate for London generally being 314 per 1,000. In 1891, the zymotic
death.rate in Chelsea was 2.0 per 1,000; in 1892, it was 31 per 1,000;
in 1893, it was 3 per 1,000 ; in 1894, it was 2.5 per 1,000; and in
1895, it was 2.7 per 1,000. The high rate in the past year is due to
excessive mortalities from diphtheria, measles, and diarrhcoa.