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Including the hospital cases, there were 79 deaths
from measles, 66 from diphtheria, 51 from whooping
cough, 42 from diarrhœa, and 16 from enteric fever.
There was 1 death from smallpox, and 1 from
typhus, both of these took place in hospitals.
The zymotic death rate in Bermondsey was 3.29.
The same rate in London was 2.66. 90 per cent,
of these deaths in the parish were of children
under 5 years of age. Our proportion of children
at that period of life exceeds that of London.
In the class of septic diseases there were 15
deaths, including 6 of infants from congenital
syphilis, and 6 deaths from erysipelas, 3 of which
occurred in children under 1 year of age.
Rheumatism and rheumatic fever caused 6 deaths
and gout 1. There were 27 deaths from cancer in
the parish, and 15 in hospitals. There Were 11
fewer deaths from cancer than in the previous
year.
In the tubercular order of diseases there were
181 deaths, against 236 in 1893. They included
103 deaths from phthisis, 46 from meningitis, and
11 from tabes mesenterica.
In addition to these, there were 88 deaths in outlying
institutions, of which 69 were from phthisis.