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Parish of Wandsworth.
An examination of the above Table shows that the only zymotic
disease which was above the average was measles, an epidemic of
which was prevalent in April, May and June. The other zymotic
diseases all show a decrease, and are all below the corrected
average.
The zymotic death-rate was 2'30 per 1,000, '24 per 1,000 under
last year, and *5 per 1,000 less than the decennial average. If
influenza, from which 13 deaths resulted be excluded, the zymotic
death-rate would be only 2'04 per 1,000.
To obtain the true zymotic death-rate, the same corrections as
were applied to the general death-rate must be used. In the
internal institutions only 1 death occurred from diarrhoea, 3 from
puerperal fever and 1 from erysipelas. While in outlying
institutions 19 deaths from zymotic diseases occurred, 14 deaths
must therefore be added to 126, giving a true death roll of 110.
Calculated from this the zymotic death-rate for the year was 2'64,
or, if influenza be not included, of 2-39 per 1,000. Last year the
same rates were 3'3 and 3*02 per 1,000.
Small-pox. No cases of this disease occurred in the district
during the year. One case of a resident in this district wa8 notified
in the parish of Battersea, and as she had only left her home
the day previous to the first symptons appearing, I visited her home
and made the necessary inquiries, but could not trace the source
of infection. The husband was re-vaccinated, and the premises
carefully watched for 14 days, but there was no spread of the disease.
The official return of the vaccination officer shows that in the
year 1893, of the total births in the district, 1,239 were successfully
vaccinated, ItiO died unvaccinated, in 11 the vaccination was postponed,
16 were certified insusceptible, 153 had removed, 3 had
removed to districts, the vaccinition officer of which had been
informed, and only 10 remained on the books as unvaccinated.
Scarlet Fever. The notifications of this disease show a marked
diminution as compared with 1893, only 133 cases having been
notified as against 440. Of these 133, 80 were removed to hospital