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"In 12 of the 43 sanitary areas of the Metropolis the deaths
referred to Influenza in 1895 exceeded those recorded in any of
the five preceding years—Paddington, St. George-the-Martyr,
Southwark, Wandsworth, and Lee showing the largest excess.
Compared with the average in the five preceding years, 1890-94,
the excess in 1895 was 3 per cent. in the East group of sanitary
areas, 18 in the Central, 43 in the North, 47 in the West, and not
less than 65 per cent. in the South. Among the sanitary areas in
the last-mentioned group, the Influenza Deaths last year in
St. George-the-Martyr (Southwark), Lambeth, Wandsworth, Camberwell,
Greenwich, and Lee exceeded the numbers recorded in
these districts respectively in any one of the preceding five years."
CHOLERA.
I am happy to state that during the year 1895 there was not
a case of Cholera reported as having occurred in this district.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
I stated in my Annual Report of 1888-9, that it was customary
to regard the absence or prevalence of disease of a Zymotic type
as a test of the Sanitary condition of a district, and I was justified
in congratulating the Board upon the satisfactory state of the
Parish of Greenwich, as the Death Rate amounted to only 1.6
per 1,000 from that class of disease.
This year the Death Rate amounts to 2.2 per 1,000 as against
2.5 of last year.
Scarlet Fever. There were only six deaths registered
from this Fever in the Parish of Greenwich, against 11 last year
and 12 in 1893.