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Zymotic. The purely Zymotic class of epidemic diseases
is credited with causing a total of 236 deaths, equalling
a Death Rate of 2.47 per 1,000. The Zymotic Death Rate
for the County of London equals 2.2 per 1,000. wherein
it varied from 0.7 in Hampstead and the City of London,
0.8 in the City of Westminster, 1.2 in Holborn and Woolwich,
1.3 in Lewisham, 1.5 in Chelsea, and 1.6 in St. Marylebone,
up to 3.1 in Stepney, 3.2 in Finsbury, 3.6 in Bethnal
Green, 3.7 in Shoreditch, and 4.0 in Poplar.
The increase of 1.09 in our Zymotic Death Rate is due
entirely to the considerable increase of deaths credited to
Diarrhoea during the hot summer months. During the year
1910 the Death Rate from Diarrhoea was 0-31, whereas
during last year it was 1*66, showing an increase from
this class of disease alone of 1*35, which is larger in itself
than the difference between the two years' total Zymotic
Death Rates.
Locally the Zymotic Death Rate varied from 0-35 in
Kidbrooke (0*83 in 1910), 1-60 in Charlton (0-33 in 1910),
2-49 in East Greenwich (1*46 in 1910), 2*58 in West Greenwich)
(1-67 in 1910), up to 4*82 in St. Nicholas (2*80 in
1910).
Small-Pox. There were no deaths from this disease in
1911, this being the ninth year since a death occurred from
this cause in the Borough.
Measles. Forty deaths were ascribed as due to this
disease, three only of the patients being over five years of
age; compared with 47 which occurred in 1910, 38, 16 and
.55 deaths were recorded in the three preceding years.
Seventeen of the deaths occurred in East Greenwich,
11 in West Greenwich, 9 in St. Nicholas, 2 in Charlton, and
1 in Kidbrooke. The quarterly incidence was 3 in the first,
and 8, 13 and 16 respectively in the succeeding quarters.