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Of the total deaths 315 were of children under 5 years of age, and
533 of persons above that age; of the 315 children 210 were infants
under one year of age.
In Table 5 will be found a comparison of the deaths occurring in
the Sanitary District of Woolwich during the years 1892 and 1893,
distinguishing those under 5 years of age and those over 5 years.
Zymotic Death Rate
The deaths from all causes during the year included 3
From small pox 10 from isfluenze, 14 from measles, 15
from scarlet fever, 6 from diphtheria, 3 from croup, 20 from whooping
cough, 5 from typhoid fever, and 33 from diarrhoea, in all 109 deaths
from diseases classified by the Registrar General as specific febrile or
zymotic, this is equivalent to a zymotic death rate of 2.60 per
thousand, in 1892 it was 2.4 per thousand, in 1891 it was 2.86 per
thousand.
The deaths from diphtheria and croup are slightly in exccss of those
from the same causes last year, those from whooping cough and
diarrhoea are greatly in excess of those from similar causes, the deaths
from diarrhoea were mainly amongst children under 5 years of age;
these two latter diseases are principally responsible for this year's
zymotic death rate.
The deaths from typhoid fever are less than those in 1892 ; in this
latter year there were sixteen, in 1893 five.
Small pox caused three deaths in 1893, in 1892 not any.
Other The causes of the remaining deaths will be seen on
reference to the appended tables, and perhaps call for no
special comment with the exception of those found in Classes IV. and
VI., Table 1.
Phthisis mortality, etc.
In Class IV., 121 deaths are recorded as arising from
tubercular disease, viz., 16 from tabes mesenterica, 10 from
tubercular meningitis and hydrocephalus, 87 from phthisis, and 8 from
other forms of tuberculosis or scrofula; of these deaths 52 occurred in
the Dockyard Registration Sub-District, and 69 in the Arsenal
Registration Sub-District; the deaths in the Arsenal Sub-District
from these causes, although proportionately not so great as in 1892,
still show an excess over those in the Dockyard Sub-District.