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1st quarter, 15. 2nd quarter, 15.
3rd „ 11. 4th „ 3.
The deaths all took place in the three first agegroups,
i.e., under the age of 15 years, and 17 were
boys and 27 girls.
"Fever."—By this term is meant the three
Fevers, "Typhus," "Enteric, or Typhoid," and
"Simple Continued." From the first and last
there were no deaths last year. From Enteric Fever
there were 23 deaths, 8.1 above the decennial annual
number, equivalent to a rate of 0.18 per 1,000.
Of the deceased, 13 were males, and 10 females.
From St. Mary's District there were 17 deaths, and
from St. John's, 6. The death-rate from this disease
was the same in the two districts. The numbers
registered in each of the quarters of the year (whole
Parish) were 5 in the first, and 6 in each of the
others.
The mean annual death-rate for the previous
nine years was 0.11. In London the rate in 1894
was 0.14, the same as the mean annual rate for
1885-93, and the rate for England and Wales (from
"Fever"), 0.16, 0.04 below the decennial average
rate.
Of the local cases, the mortality per cent. of
cases treated in hospital was 32.3; that among home
cases, 33.3; and the total case mortality, 32.8.
Diarrhœa.—The corrected number of cases last
year was 45, and the mortality 0.59 per 1,000 of the