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REMARKS ON VARIOUS DEATH CAUSES.
Infective Diseases.
Epidemic. There were 160 deaths due to this class of diseases,
equalling a Death Rate of 1.53 per 1,000; the rate last year
was 4.86, and was 1.71, 1.71 and 1.54 in 1915, 1916 and 1917
respectively.
Zymotic. The purely, Zymotic class of epidemic diseases
is credited with causing a total of 88 deaths, equalling a Death
Rate of 84 per 1,000.
Locally, the Zymotic Death Rate varied from .32 in Kidbrooke
(.37 in 1918), .65 in Charlton (1.1 in 1918), .71 in East
Greenwich (1.78 in 1918), .92 in West Greenwich (2.01 in 1918),
up to 1.72 in St. Nicholas (2.06 in 1918).
Small-Fox. There were no deaths from this disease in 1919,
this being the seventeenth year since a death occurred from this
cause in the Borough.
Measles. Thirteen deaths were ascribed as due to this disease,
11 of the patients being under live years of age, and 2 between five
and fifteen years of age, compared with 45 which occurred in 1918;
46, 48 and 45 deaths were recorded in the years 1915, 1916 and 1917
respectively.
One of the deaths occurred in East Greenwich, 5 in West
Greenwich, 5 in St. Nicholas, 2 in Charlton and 0 in Kidbrooke.
The quarterly incidence was 1 in the first, and 1, 4 and 7 respectively
in the succeeding quarters.
Scarlet-Fever. This disease occasioned 7 deaths, 2 of which
were under two years. Two deaths occurred in East Greenwich,
1 in West Greenwich, 3 in St. Nicholas and 1 in Charlton. One
such death occurred in 1918 and 1 in 1917.
Diphtheria. There were 15 deaths from this disease during
1919. This gives a Death Rate for Diphtheria of .14 comparing
with .07 the rate for 1918. Sixteen deaths occurred in 1918 which
were attributed to this cause, and 14, 22 and 27 in 1915, 1916 and
1917 respectively.
Ten of the patients were under five years of age.
Forty-two tubes of Diphtheria Anti-toxin, containing a total of
84,000 units of serum, for the treatment of patients suffering from
this disease, have been supplied by this Council during the year.
Whooping Cough. This disease was given as the cause of
9 deaths in 1918, as against 23, 8 and 45 in the years 1916, 1917
and 1918. These deaths equal a rate of .08 per 1,000. Five of the