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rate is calculated. These diseases last year caused
207 deaths in all—equal to a death-rate of 1.68 per
1,000 persons, the mean decennial rate being 2.11.
The death-rate among children under 5 years of
age was 12.68 per 1,000, and at ages in excess of 5
years, 0.41. In London the death-rate last year
from these causes was 2.62, and the decennial mean
rate 2.74 per 1,000; the corresponding rates for
England and Wales being (both) 2.14. The
zymotic death-rates reduced to the standard for
England and Wales were last year—Paddington
1.81, and London 2.79.
The zymotic death-rate for the district of St.
Mary was last year 1.90 per 1,000 of the population
of the district, and that for the district of St. John,
0.87. The death-rates from the several diseases
per 1,000 inhabitants, in each district, were as
follows (that for St. Mary's being in each case given
first):—measles 0.18, 0.03; scarlet fever 0.11, 0.09;
whooping cough 0.20, 0.03; diphtheria 0.49, 0.12;
enteric fever 0.08, 0.21; and diarrhœa 0.85, 0.36.
Full information as to the number of deaths in
the two districts in each quarter of the year will
be found in Table 22, supra.
Epidemic influenza caused 116 deaths in 1895,
compared with 29 in 1894, 75 in 1893, 96 in 1892,
69 in 1891, and 43 in 1890. Of the deaths during
last year, 44 were of males, and 72 of females, 91
of the deceased persons being inhabitants of North