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Infectious and other Zymotic Diseases.
Zymotic Diseases.
The principal zymotic diseases are seven in number, viz.,
small-pox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria (including membranous
croup), whooping-cough, "fever" (including typhus,
enteric or typhoid, simple or continued), and diarrhœa.
In the Borough of Battersea during 1913 there were registered
from the principal zymotic diseases 197 deaths (as against
133 deaths in 1912, and 331 deaths in 1911), giving a corrected
zymotic death-rate of 117 per 1,000, the corrected death-rate for
the County of London being 1.4, varying in the different Metropolitan
Boroughs from 2.7 in Shoreditch to 0'4 in the City of
London. The zymotic death-rate varies considerably for the three
registration sub-districts into which, for registration purposes, the
Borough is divided. Thus in North-West Battersea the rate was
2.03, in East Battersea 1.14, while in South-West Battersea the
rate was only 0.34 per 1,000. This is in accordance with the rule
that, generally speaking, the highest incidence and mortality from
zymotic disease will be found in the less sanitary areas of the
Borough.