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From the above table it appears that the mortality from
enteric fever was in excess of the corrected decennial average,
to the number of five deaths, and from diarrhoea to the number
of ten deaths, that from all of the remaining diseases being
below the average.
District Zymotic Death-Rate.—The deaths in North
Kensington were 178, and the rate 2.0 per 1,000 persons living.
In South Kensington the deaths were 81, and the rate l.0 per
1,000. The rate in the several sanitary districts was as
follows :—
North 72 deaths, or 2.1 per 1,000 persons living.
North east 49 deaths, or 1.6 per 1,000 persons living.
North-west 46 deaths, or 2.7 per 1,000 persons living.
Central 29 deaths, or 1.1 per 1,000 persons living.
South-east 26 deaths, or 0.8 per 1,000 persons living.
South-west 37 deaths, or 1.1 per 1,000 persons living.
The table at page 25 shows the distribution of the deaths
in Kensington, as a whole, from the several diseasess, as recorded
in the thirteen four-weekly reports.
In England and Wales the deaths from these diseases
were at the rate of 2.21 per 1,000 persons living, the decennial
average being about 2.5 per 1,000. In the thirty-three great
towns, including London, the average rate was 2.81, ranging
from 1.50 in Halifax, 1.56 in Croydon, and l.65 in Derby, to
4.32 in Salford, 4 35 in Burnley, and 4.39 in Sheffield.
Before dealing with the local prevalence of the several
diseases of the zymotic class, reference may be made to an
investigation undertaken to ascertain to what extent reduction
in mortality from the principal diseases had ensued upon preventive
measures taken during the quarter-century 1873-97—
as by provision of hospitals and isolation of the sick; by dis-