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INFLUENZA.
One hundred and three deaths were registered, against
20, 44, and 70, in the three preceding years. Sixty-five of the
deaths occurred in the Town sub-district, and 38 in Brompton.
The deaths in London, as a whole, from this cause were 1,817,
as compared with 2,117, 491, and 679, in the four preceding
years, and were 545 above the corrected decennial average.
Other Diseases of the Zymotic Class.—Still dealing
with the diseases in this important Class, it appears that
one death from Remittent Fever was registered in Order 3
(Malarial Diseases), and no death from Zoogenous Diseases,
comprised in Order 4.
Order 5, Venereal Diseases, includes Syphilis, Gonorrhoea,
and Stricture of the Urethra. Syphilis was the registered
cause of 17 deaths, against 18, 21, and 16, in the three preceding
years respectively. Fourteen of the deaths occurred in
the Town sub-district, and 15 of them were of children under
one year of age. If the truth were known, it would probably
appear that this Protean malady was accountable, directly or
indirectly, for many deaths in excess of the record. There
was one death from Stricture of the Urethra.
Order 6, Septic Diseases. This Order comprises Erysipelas,
Pyœmia, Septiœmia, and Puerperal Fever: the total
deaths registered were 17, as compared with 12, 21, and 12, in
the three preceding years respectively. Erysipelas was the
cause of 8 deaths,* six of them in the Town sub-district, as
compared with 4, 9, and 7, in the three preceding years
respectively. There were 4 deaths from Pyœmia or Septiœmia.
* The notified cases of erysipelas were 210, many of them being of traumatic
origin, unimportant in character, and such as the framers of the Act could scarcely
have intended to be notified.