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Mortality from the Principal Epidemic Diseases.
The following diseases are included under this heading :—
Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping
Cough, Fevers (that is to say, Typhus, Enteric and continued),
Diarrheal Diseases, and Plague.
DEATHS.
It is unsatisfactory to your Medical Officer of- Health to
have to report that these diseases caused more deaths in the
year under discussion than in any year since 1906. With the
exception of the last mentioned year the number of deaths was
greater than any year for the past ten years.
Altogether 298 deaths were registered during 1911.
These deaths show an increase of 93 deaths compared with
1910, 104 compared with 1909,136 compared with 1908, and 144
compared with 1907.
The chief increase being 172 deaths due to Diarrheal
diseases, whilst the deaths from Enteric Fever are the lowest
on record, only numbering 2 for the year.
DEATH KATE.
The death rate from all these diseases calculated on the
estimated population was 2.72 per 1000 of the population.
This is a very high rate for Deptford and compares unfavourably
with the average for the past ten years, which is 1.93, and also
with the average rates 1.71, 1.63, and 1.37 for the previous
three years.
Although this year we have the highest death rate of any
since 1900, we find an increase in the County of London and
also in the neighbouring Metropolitan Boroughs.