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from this disease was highest in the Sydenham and Forest Hill
Division and lowest in Lee. (See Table 14).
Scarlet FeYer.—17 deaths were notified in the Borough,
equal to a mortality rate of 012 per thousand. On sub-division,
the Lewisham Division had the highest mortality, 0.15, and
Sydenham and Forest Hill the lowest, 0.09 per thousand. The
case mortality was 2.6 per cent. of persons affected.
Diphtheria.—There were 44 fatal cases, giving a mortality
rate for the Borough of 0 33 per thousand. Of the three
Borough Divisions, the disease was most fatal in Lee, and the
lowest in Lewisham, the mortality being 0.47 and 0.25 per
thousand respectively. The case mortality was 11.8 of the
actual cases.
Whooping Cough.—Of all the Zymotic diseases Whooping
Cough caused the greatest number of deaths (63), equal to a death
rate of 0.47. In the Sydenham and Forest Hill Division the
mortality rate was 0.52 per 1,000, Lewisham 0.47, and Lee 0.36.
Enteric Fever.—There were 9 fatal cases equal to a death
rate of 0.06 per 1,000, and a case mortality of 15.2.
Epidemic Diarrhoea and Enteritis.—Fifty-five deaths occurred,
equal to a death rate of 0 41 per 1,000. The mortality
was highest in the Lewisham Division, 0.54, and lowest in Lee,
0.10. (See Table 14.)
Details of deaths attributed to other infective diseases will
be found in Tables 7 and 11, Class I.
CLASS II.—Phthisis.—This disease was responsible for
142 deaths, or 7.6 per cent. of the total 1,818 deaths from all
causes. This mortality is equal to a death rate of 106 per
1,000, compared with 0.93 in 1901 for the whole Borough, the
lowest rate of the ten south Metropolitan Boroughs. Of the