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Infectious and other Diseases.
Causes of Death.
The causes of death are tabulated in Table XXXI.
(Table IV. of the Local Government Board Series), and are set
out in greater detail in Table XXXII.
Zymotic Mortality.
Table X. shows the deaths from the chief zymotic
diseases for the ten years 1894-1903, and the year 1904
respectively. The figures for the latter year show a marked
reduction in the number of deaths from each of the diseases
save diarrhoea. The reduction was greatest in measles and
diphtheria. In only one year since 1881 has a lower number
of deaths from measles been recorded in Battersea. This was
the year 1891, in which year 37 deaths occurred; the
population at that time, however, was only 150,880. It will
be seen that there were no deaths from small-pox. The
increased number of deaths from diarrhoea is to be attributed
to the exceptionally hot weather, and also, to some extent,
to changes in death certification and classification; many
deaths now recorded under diarrhoea would formerly have been
certified as due to enteritis or gastro-enteritis.