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CLASS I—ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Principal Zymotic Diseases.
The principal Zymotic diseases are seven in number, viz.,
smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria (including membranous
croup), whooping cough, "fevers" (including typhus,
typhoid or enteric, and simple or continued), and diarrhœa; and
the zymotic death-rate is made up from the total deaths from
these diseases. As a test of the sanitary condition of a Community,
the zymotic death-rate is of approximate value, and the
statistics for the Borough of Lambeth are satisfactory for 1902.
In the Borough of Lambeth during 1902 there were registered
517 deaths from the seven zymotic diseases, and of these 96
were strangers belonging to other districts, and 421 parishioners
who died within the Borough. 140 parishioners, however, died
without the Borough. Substracting the strangers and adding on
the parishioners who died without the Borough, there is a corrected
total of 561, giving a zymotic corrected death-rate of 1.8
per 1,000 inhabitants, the corrected rate for London being 2.2,
varying in the various Metropolitan Districts, as shown on page
10. The zymotic death-rates (corrected) for the different Registration
Sub-Districts of the Borough of Lambeth vary also, as
shown in Table D, which in addition gives the death-rates and
birth-rates for comparison. Waterloo Road, Lambeth Church,
1st and 2nd, show the highest, and Norwood, Brixton, and Kennington
2nd the lowest, zymotic death-rates respectively. The
corrected zymotic death-rate for the Inner Districts is 2.1, and
for the Outer, 1.4—a difference explainable, as before, from
the crowding and absence of proper means of home isolation
and nursing in the former, as compared with the latter Districts.
Crowded Districts naturally suffer more in this respect than
those more sparsely populated.
Similar conclusions are obtainable by comparing the zymotic
death-rates and zymotic incidences for the different new Wards
of the Borough, as shewn in Table E, from which it is seen that,
of the 9 new Wards into which the Borough is now divided,