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ASSIGNED CAUSES OF DEATH.
Class I.—Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
The class of diseases called Zymotic comprises in the
Registrar-General's arrangement of the causes of death, six
Orders. The first and second of these Orders, Miasmatic and
Diarrhaœl, include the diseases which the Registrar-General
describes as the "seven principal diseases of the zymotic
class," the three fevers respectively named Typhus, Enteric,
and Simple-Continued, being grouped under the generic term
"Fever."
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The deaths from the seven principal diseases of the
zymotic class, which had been 460, 310, and 347, in the preceding
three years successively, were 259 in 1899, and 89 below
the corrected decennial average (348). These deaths, of which
215 belong to the Town sub-district, and 44 to Brompton,
were equivalent to 1.5 per 1,000 persons living (1.73 in the
Town sub-district and 1.32 in Brompton), as compared with
2.0 in 1898. The rate in the Metropolis, as a whole, was 2.48
per 1,000 (2.78 in 1898); the decennial rate being, for London
27, and for Kensington 2.0, per 1,000.