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There were 8 births, equal to a birth-rate of 37.5 per
1,000.
The 6 deaths equalled a death-rate of 28.1 per 1,000.
There were two deaths of young children from whooping-cough
and diarrhoea, these corresponded to an annual
zymotic death-rate of 9.3 per 1,000.
Only one certificate of infectious diseases was received,
viz., that of a child suffering from scarlet fever.
Deaths in Certain Classes of Diseases.
Class 1.—Specific, Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
This class of diseases, called "zymotic," comprises
in the Registrar-General's arrangement of the causes of
death, six orders. The first and second orders (miasmatic
and diarrhoeal) include the diseases which the RegistrarGeneral
describes as the seven principal diseases of the
zymotic class; the term "fever" includes "typhus,"
"enteric, or typhoid," and "simple continued forms of
fever," these seven diseases being considered more or less
of a preventable character.
In England and Wales the deaths from these diseases
during 1896 were 66,936, corresponding to a rate of 2.18
per 1,000 living, against 1.81 and 2.17 respectively in the
preceding two years.
In Registration London these diseases caused 14,009
deaths, equal to a zymotic death-rate of 3.11 per 1,000.
In St. Giles district there were 87 deaths, equal to a
rate of 2.2 per 1,000, against 2.0, 2.0, and 1.9, in the three
preceding years; this rate was 1.9 per 1,000 below that of
all London.