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REMARKS ON VARIOUS DEATH CAUSES.
Infective Diseases.
Epidemic. There were 126 deaths due to this class of
diseases, equalling a death rate of 1.14 per 1,000; the rate last
year was 1.47, and was 1.65 and 1.95 in 1907 and 1906
respectively.
The Zymotic Death Rate for the County of London equals
1.31 per 1,000, wherein it varied from 0.52 in Hampstead, 0.57
in Lewisham, 0.63 in the City of Westminster and Stoke
Newington, 0.72 in the City of London, and 0.83 in St.
Marylebone, up to 2.36 in Finsbury, 2.37 in Poplar, 2.74 in
Bermondsey, and 2.87 in Shoreditch.
Locally, the Zymotic Death Rate varied from nil in Kid.
brooke (O.OO in 1908), 0.74 in West Greenwich (1.07 in 1908),
l.Ol in Charlton (1.24 in 1908), l.03 in East Greenwich (120 in
1908), up to 2.01 in St. Nicholas (l.53 in 1908).
Small.pox. There were no deaths from this disease in
1909, this being the seventh year since a death occurred from
this cause in the Borough.
Measles. Thirty.eight deaths were ascribed as due to this
disease, three only of the patients being over five years of age;
compared with 16 which occurred in 1908, 55, 29 and 18 deaths
were recorded in the three preceding years.
Twenty.two of the deaths occurred in East Greenwich, 6 in
St. Nicholas, 6 in Charlton, and 4 in West Greenwich. The
quarterly incidence was 30 in the first, and 4, 1 and 3 respectively
in the succeeding quarters.