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Popular lectures are also given upon General Hygiene.
The Society has the support of your Council, and it is
believed their work has already been greatly appreciated.
The Society has promised to give any assistance possible
to the Health Department, and has assisted us in distributing
pamphlets in the poorer homes.
Zymotic Death Rate.— The Zymotic death rate is calculated
upon the total deaths occurring at all ages from the
principal infectious diseases, viz.:—Small-Pox, Measles, Scarlet,
Typhus and Typhoid Fevers, Whooping Cough, Epidemic
Diarrhoea, Enteritis and Dysentery.
The Zymotic death rate is also a valuable test of the
sanitary condition of a district, and in this respect Lewisham
maintains a high position.
The Zymotic death rate for the Borough for the year
under review amounted to 1.40 per 1,000 persons, compared with
2.14 for the County of London, 1.94 England and Wales, and
2.49 for the 76 Great Towns. Of the ten South Metropolitan
Boroughs, Lewisham possesses the lowest rate.
This Borough shows an increase in the Zymotic death
rate over that of the previous year, for which Epidemic Diarrhoea
among children under one year is largely responsible. The
increased mortality from Zymotic diseases was general throughout
London as well as England and Wales. (See Tables 12 and
17).
Of the total 197 deaths from the principal infectious
diseases, Measles accounted for 23, Scarlet Fever 7, Whooping