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Taking these diseases separately, according to the order
in which they are placed in Table IX., we find that:—
Small-Pox caused no death in the Parish, but 3 deaths
of our Parishioners in Public Institutions outside of the
Parish. (Table A.)
Measles: caused only 2 deaths, the lowest number ever
recorded in the Parish, and only about one-fifteenth of the
annual average.
Scarlet Fever caused only 5 deaths in the Parish, but no
less than 19 deaths of Parishioners occurred from the disease
in Public Institutions outside of the Parish.
Diphtheria: no less than 49 deaths were registered in the
Parish from this disease, but 31 of these were those of NonParishioners.
On the other hand, there were 8 deaths of
Parishioners from Diphtheria in Public Institutions outside
the Parish, so that 26 Parishioners died of Diphtheria. (There
were also 6 deaths of Parishioners from Membranous Croup.)
This disease is still exceedingly prevalent in London and
in some of the other great towns, the average death-rate from
it, in the 33 largest English towns in 1893 being over twice
the average of the preceding 10 years.
Whooping Cough: only 12 deaths were registered, all of
Parishioners, as against 20 in 1892, and 24 in 1891, and an
average of nearly 30 during the previous 10 years.
Typhus Fever was not, so far as I am aware, present in the
Parish during the year, and only one death from it has been
recorded in the Parish since 1881.
Enteric (or Typhoid) Fever: no less than 27 deaths were
registered, or nearly twice the corrected average for the
previous 10 years. But of these 27 deaths, 17 were those of