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REMARKS ON VARIOUS DEATH CAUSES.
Infective Diseases.
Epidemic. There were 163 deaths due to this class of
diseases, equalling a death rate of 1.47 per 1,000; the rate last
year was 1.65, and was 1.95 and 2.49 in 1906 and 1905
respectively.
The Zymotic Death Rate for the County of London equals
1.35 per 1,000, wherein it varied from 0.40 in Hampstead and
the City of London, 0.58 in the City of Westminster, 0.82 in
Stoke Newington, 0.85 in St. Marylebone, and 0.87 in Paddington,
up to 2.09 in Finsbury and Shoreditch, 2.26 in Poplar, 2.30 in
Bermondsey, 2.48 in Bethnal Green, and 2.53 in Stepney.
Locally, the Zymotic Death Rate varied from nil in Kidbrooke
(0.00 in 1907), 1.07 in West Greenwich (1.45 in 1907), 1.20 in
East Greenwich (L70 in 1907), L24 in Charlton (0-65 in 1907),
up to 1.53 in St. Nicholas (1.84 in 1907).
Small-Pox. There were no deaths from this disease in
1908, this being the sixth year since a death occurred from this
cause in the Borough.
Measles. Sixteen deaths were ascribed as due to this
disease, two only of the patients being over five years of age;
this number is a large decrease from the 55 which occurred in
1907; 29, 18 and 40 deaths were recorded in the three preceding
years.
Nine of the deaths occurred in West Greenwich, 4 in St.
Nicholas, and 3 in Charlton. The quarterly incidence was nil in
the first, and 7, 2 and 7 respectively in the succeeding quarters.