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3. Includes Phithisis, Scrofula, Rickets, Tabes Mesenterica, and deaths registered as ???
caused by Tubercular Meningitis in persons more than 1 year old.
4. Including Atrophy and Debility, Want of Breast Milk, and Premature Birth, in children
under 1 year.
5. Inoludes Infantile Hydrocephalus, Meningitis, Convulsions and Teething, under 1 year.
The table shows that the proportion of deaths from
zymotic diseases, including diarrhœa, was much smaller than
in any other year in the table, and, indeed, in any year within
my recollection. In all London the death-rate from these
diseases was 2.2 per 1,000, which is the smallest since 1870,
so that the low rate of 1.63 for Hackney is the more
satisfactory, especially as the death-rates from these diseases
has usually nearly equalled those for all London. The deaths
from inflammatory diseases of the lungs were also much below
the average, as the death-rate was only 2.60 per 1,000, against
3.32 in 1888; 3.42 in 1887; 3.18 in 1886; and 3.59 in 1885.
The same can be said as regards the deaths from other diseases
in the table, except tubercular affections, which, although lower
than in 1885 and 1886, caused in 1889 a rather larger
mortality than in 1887, and a decidedly larger (1.97, against
l-64 per 1,000) in 1888. As, however, there was a much
smaller rate from the cognate class of disease grouped together
as wasting and convulsive diseases of infants, it is to a certain
extent more apparent than real. The total number of deaths
from these causes, per 1,000 population, was very much smaller
in 1889 than in any other year, having been only 7.76, against
10.77 in 1885, and 9.13 in 1888.