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The table at page 14 exhibits the distribution of the deaths in the Borough, as a whole, from
the several diseases, as recorded in the thirteen four-weekly reports.
In Appendix II., statistical information is given in Tables B, C and D, pages 118 and 119,
showing the number of deaths from the several diseases during the forty-nine years, 1856-1904;
viz., in Table B, the annual number of deaths from each disease and the death-rate therefrom; in
Table C, the number of deaths grouped in quinquennia! periods; in Table D, the rate per 1,000 of
the population, in quinquennial periods, of the four notifiable diseases (small-pox, scarlet fever,
diphtheria and "fever"), and the three non-notifiable diseases—measles, whooping-cough and
diarrhoea.
In England and Wales the deaths from the principal zymotic diseases were at the rate of
l·94 per 1,000 persons living. In the seventy-six great towns, including London, the average rate
was 2·49.
In London, as a whole, the mortality from these diseases last year was 2·18 per 1,000 and
0·93 below the corrected decennial average; the total deaths were 9,990. The mortality from all of
these diseases shows a considerable decrease compared with the decennial average.