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Two inquests were held. The deaths were due to natural
causes. Two deaths were uncertified, one was referred to
acre, the other to infantile convulsions.
Forty-five notifications of infectious diseases were received.
They included 21 of scarlet fever, 15 of diphtheria,
6 of erysipelas, 2 of typhoid fever, and 1 of membranous
croup.
A case which was notified as diphtheria at 209 Lynton
Road, on October 3rd, and admitted to the South Eastern.
Hospital on October 4th, is reported by the Medical Super-
intendant of that hospital "as not suffering from diphtheria
or any other notifiable disease."
14th November, 1898.
During the week that ended on the 5th day of November,
52 births and 23 deaths were registered in the parish.
These numbers indicate an annual birth rate of 31.8, and
an annual rate of mortality of 14.0 per thousand of the
estimated population. The corresponding death rate in
London was 16.1.
The number of deaths of children under one year of
age was 7, of persons aged 60 years and upwards 2, and
of parishioners in outlying public institutions 18.
From zymotic disease there was only one death, which
was from whooping cough.
Diseases of the respiratory organs caused 9 deaths, viz.:
5 from bronchitis and 4 from pneumonia.