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below the average; while in St. Luke, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green,
Whitechapel, St. George-in-the East, Mile End Old Town, Newington
and Bermondsey the birth-rates showed a marked excess.
The deaths of persons belonging to London registered during the
year under notice were 75,434, equal to an annual rate of 17.4 per
1,000 of the population, against 21-1, 20'3, and 20 9 in the three
preceding years. This rate was considerably below any recorded
since the establishment of civil registration nearly sixty years ago,
the nearest approach to so low a death-rate having been 18'0 in 1889.
During the nine preceding years 1885-93 the London death-rate
averaged 20 - 1 per 1,000. The lowest death-rates in the forty-three
sanitary areas during last year were 9 - 8 in Stoke Newington, 10 6in
Hampstead, 12-4 in Wandsworth and in Lee, 12-5 in Plumstead,
138 in Lewisham (excluding Penge), and 14 5 in St. George
Hanover Square ; in the other districts the rates ranged upwards to
21-1 in Mile End Old Town. 21-4 in Whitechapel, 22 7 in Strand,
23-1 in St. George Southwark, 23'5 in St. Luke, 24-7 in Limehouse
and 26-4 in St. George-in-the East.
During the year under notice 11,467 deaths resulted from the
principal zymotic diseases in London ; of these, 3,291 were referred
to measles, 2,637 to diphtheria, 2,094 to whooping cough, 1,769 to
diarrhoea, 961 to scarlet fever, 626 to different forms of " fever "
(including 5 to typhus, 608 to enteric fever, and 13 to simple and
ill-defined forms of fever), and 89 to small-pox. These 11,467
deaths were equal to an annual rate of 2 6 per 1,000, against 2-3,
2 - 8, and 30 in the three preceding years; during the nine years
1885-93 the zymotic death-rate in London averaged 2.7 per 1,000.
In the various sanitary areas the rates ranged from o'9 in Stoke
Newington, I*l in the City of London, 1-4 in St. George Hanover
Square and in Hampstead, I*7 in Lee, I*B in Wandsworth and I*9
in Lewisham, to 35 in Bethnal Green, 3 - 6 in St. George Southwark,
3"8 in Eulham, 4"1 in Mile End Old Town, 4-3 in Limehouse and
50 in St. George-in-the-East. Compared with the average in the
ten preceding years the mortality from measles and from diphtheria
showed a marked excess, while that from each of the other principal
zymotic diseases showed a decline. The 89 fatal cases of small-pox