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Taking into consideration the extreme heat which existed last
summer, and which is believed to play so large a part in the
causation of this disease, the death-rate is low. The number
of deaths is .4 below the corrected decennial average.
Influenza. Only 14 deaths were registered as due directly to
this disease, as compared with 41 in 1892. The deaths from
diseases of the respiratory organs, however, show a large increase,
and there is little doubt but that this increase is partly due to the
continued prevalence of influenza during the spring of 1893.

The only death-rate which is above the average is that of
diphtheria and croup, but, as previously stated, this increase was
not confined to this sub-district, but was common to the whole
Metropolis.
Notification of Infection Diseases.
The total number of cases of infectious diseases notified during
the year was 868, as compared with 588 in 1892. Every disease
but continued fever showed an increase : small pox, 11 ; scarlet
fever, 137; erysipelas, 56 ; diphtheria, 46; membranous croup, 15;
enteric fever, 12; and puerperal fever l more than in 1892.
The number of deaths was 77, or 8.8 per cent, of all the cases
notified compared with 9.6 in 1892, and 9.75 in 1891.
The numbers of the several diseases, the number of patients
sent to hospital, and the number of deaths that occurred in
hospital, as well as in the sub-district, are given in the following
Table.