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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),
Diarrhceal Diseases, and Plague.
deaths.
It is satisfactory to your Medical Officer of Health to have
to report that these diseases caused less deaths in the year
under discussion than in any year since the formation of the
Borough. In 1906 and 1911 the number of deaths was greater
than in any year for the past ten years.
Altogether 99 deaths were registered during 1912.
These deaths show a decrease of 199 deaths compared with
1911, 106 compared with 1910, 95 compared with 1909, and 63
compared with 1908.
death rate.
The death rate from all these diseases calculated on the
estimated population was 0.91 per 1000 of the population.
This is a very low rate for Deptford and compares very
favourably with the average for the past ten years, which is
1.95, and also with the rates of 2.72, 1.71, and 1.63 for the
previous three years.