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The deaths recorded (476) were 39 in excess of the
corrected (43 7) and 42 in excess of the uncorrected (434)
decennial averages. The deaths from the principal
zymotic diseases (124) were 34 in excess of the corrected
average, the bulk of this increase being due to the
epidemics of measles (18 deaths as compared with an
average of 10) and diarrhoea (81 deaths as compared
with an average of 57). There were 38 deaths from
enteritis (a term used frequently to represent the same
disease as diarrhoea) as compared with an average of
14. Tubercular diseases caused 37 deaths, or 9 more
than the annual average.
The subject of infantile diarrhoea was fully
discussed in the reports for 1895 (page 92 et. seq.) and
1897 (page 55 et. seq.), and it will serve no useful
purpose to re-iterate on the present occasion what was
then written.
The infantile mortality in 1898 was at the rate of
160 per 1,000 births registered, as compared with 148
in 1897 and a decennial mean rate of 149. In
Table 14 will be found the mortality rates which
prevailed in several of the Metropolitan Sanitary
Districts, and in Table 18 the local rates for 1888-97
and 1898 are contrasted with those prevailing in the
country generally. In North Paddington last year's
infantile mortality was 163 per 1,000 births, and in
South, 140.