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WHOOPING COUGH.
(Decennial average 106.2).
Whooping Cough caused 33 deaths, all amongst young children,
and shewed a mortality of 1.7 per thousand on the estimated population
of young children.
MEASLES.
(Decennial average 1154).
Measles caused 110 deaths, of which all but four were amongst
young children aged less than five years, this being a mortality of
5'9 per thousaud on the estimated population of young children
under five years of age.
DIARRHŒA.
(Decennial average 96.2).
Diarrhoea was the registered cause of 160 deaths, but as in twenty
instances some other disease than diarrhoea contributed to the fatal
termination, I have not included them in my calculations. The
mortality was in the proportion of 1.25 to each thousand inhabitants.
PHTHISIS.
To Phthisis, 243 deaths were referred, the mortality was equal to
1.89 per thousand persons living as compared with 177 in the whole
of London. The Registrar General notes that the death rate from
Phthisis was in 1895 highest (2.65) in the central group of sanitary
districts and next highest (2.05) in the east group.
RESPIRATORY DISEASES.
The deaths from chest diseases other than Phthisis and Pulmonary
Influenza were 640, being about 23 per cent. of the total mortality
from all causes, and corresponding to a rate of 5.0 per thousand
population at all ages.