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below the corrected decennial average (3,484); they were in
the proportion of 0.34 per 1,000 persons living, this being the
lowest rate on record ; the nearest approach to so low a rate
having been 0.41 in 1883. The average rate in the 10 years
1885-94 was 0.63.
FEVER.
There was no death from Typhus Fever. From Simple
Continued Fever there was one death. Enteric Fever was the
cause of 15 deaths, compared with 15, 17, and 21, in the preceding
three years respectively, the corrected decennial average
being 17. Ten of the deaths belong to the Town sub-district,
and live to Brompton. Four of these deaths occurred in
hospitals, to which 43 cases were removed, and 11 at home.
Ninety-nine cases of the disease were notified, 51 in North
Kensington and 48 in South Kensington, compared with 58,
102, and 90, in the preceding three years successively. The
deaths in London from Fever were (529, viz., from Typhus
Fever 5, from Simple Continued Fever 10, and from Enteric
Fever 614 ; or 17 below the corrected decennial average (631).
The death rate was 0.14 per 1,000 persons living, or 0.02 less
than the average fever rate in the ten years immediately
preceding. The corrected notifications of this disease were
3,506 in number.
DIARRHŒA.
Diarrhoea was the cause of 118 deaths, against 77, 98, and
56, in the preceding three years successively : 101 in the Town
sub-district, and 17 in Brompton ; the corrected decennial
average being 84. All of the deaths, save 8, were of children
under five years of age, including 88 under one year. The
deaths in London from this cause were 3,600, and 607 above
the corrected decennial average (2,993). The death-rate was
0.83 per 1000 persons living : 0.15 above the decennial average,
and it was higher than in any year since 1887.