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parishioners of Chelsea occurred outside the district in various public
institutions. There were, thereforo, 1,737 deaths of parishioners of
Chelsea. Theso 1,737 deaths are equivalent to a death-rate for the
year of 17.9 per 1,000, as against a death-rato of 19.6 per 1,000 in
1899.
Table II. gives the death-rates of Chelsea and its constituent
districts, and of London, during the past 10 years.

Zymotic death-rate.—The death-rato in Chelsea from the seven
principal zymotic diseases was 2.26 per 1,000 in 1900, the corresponding
rate for London being 267 per 1,000. In 1899 the zymotic death-rate
in Chelsea was 2.88 per 1,000. The decrease in 1900 is duo to a
diminished prevalence of diphtheria, whooping cough, and diarrhœa;
measles and enteric fever being the only diseases showing increases.

Kensal Town again suffered somewhat severely from summer
diarrhoea, but much less heavily than in the three preceding years.