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Table XXVI.
Showing the Corrected Mean Number of Deaths from the
principal Zymotic Diseases, 1885-96, together with the deaths
registered in 1897.
Diseases.
Corrected Mean
Number of Deaths
1885-96.
1897.
Increase or
Decrease.
Small Pox
13
1
—12
Measles
211
97
—114
Scarlet Fever
60
61
+1
Diphtheria
141
115
—26
Whooping Cough
206
130
—76
Typhus Fever
1
—
—1
Enteric
46
44
—2
Diarrhœa
211
174
—37
The Above Diseases
889
622
—267
DEATHS FROM THE ZYMOTIC DISEASES IN THE
SUB-DISTRICTS.
Upper Holloway.—173 deaths were registered. These were equal
to a death-rate of 1.72 per 1,000 inhabitants. They are 80 below the
corrected average of the preceding six years. The decrease has taken
place under the heading of each disease with the exception of SmallPox,
which maintained its average of 1 death, and of Enteric Fever
which increased from 11 to 16.
Zymotic
Diseases.
1891.
Deaths.
1892.
Deaths.
1893.
Deaths.
1894.
Deaths.
1895.
Deaths.
1896.
Deaths.
Mean
Six Yrs.
1897.
Deaths.
Death-rates.
Small Pox — 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 0.00
Measles 70 38 24 53 27 53 44 38 0.37
Scarlet Fever 22 10 19 23 19 17 18 15 0.15
Diphtheria 87 77 54 70 49 86 70 49 0.49
Whooping Cough 74 39 50 44 16 87 52 28 0.28
Typhus Fever 2 10 1 — 1 — 2 — —
Enteric Fever 10 12 17 7 9 13 11 16 0.16
Diarrhœa 4161 79 33 77 50 65 26 0.26
Total 306 238 246 231 199 307 263 173 1.72