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Lewisham Workhouse 124 deaths.
Lower Sydenham Home for Sick
Children 10 „
St. John's Hospital, Blackheath 8 „
North Surrey District Schools 5 „
Watermans' Asylum, Penge 3 „
During the same period the death rate in England and
Wales, which in the preceding four years had been successively
18.2, 19 5, 20.2, and 19.0 per 1000, rose to 19.17.
The death rate in London for 1893 was 21.3, per 1000.
The death rate of the "Outer Ring" of suburban districts,
with a population of close on a million and a-half was
15.4 per 1,000.
The death rate of the thirty-three great towns of
England and Wales, with a population of over ten millions,
averaged 21.6 per 1,000, ranging from 15.0 per 1000 for
Croydon to 26.7 per 1000 for Preston.
Zymotic Disease.
The number of deaths from Zymotic Disease was 153
as compared with 145 in 1892. There was a marked decrease
in the number of deaths from whooping cough, there being
only 10 deaths as against 67 in 1892 ; but in all other
zymotic disease there was an increase in the number of deaths.
Scarlet Fever 14 deaths as compared with 4 in 1892.
Diphtheria 53 „ „ 17 „
Small-pox 5 „ „ 0 „
Typhoid Fever 10 „ „ 2 „
Measles 19 „ „ 15 „
Whooping Cough 10 „ „ 67 „
Diarrhoea 42 „ „ 40 „
Scarlet Fever.
There were 524 notifications of this disease received
during the year 1893, with 14 deaths. The type of
disease was in most cases mild, and there was no epidemic ;
the cases being scattered over the whole district.