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ASSIGNED CAUSES OF DEATH.
Class I.—Specific Febrii.e or Zymotic Diseases.
The class of diseases called Zymotic, comprises, in the
Registrar-General's arrangement of the causes of death, six
Orders. The first and second Orders, Miasmatic and
Diarrhoeal, include the diseases which the Registrar-General
describes as the " seven principal diseases of the zymotic
class," the three fevers respectively named Typhus, Enteric,
and Simple Continued, being grouped under the generic term
" Fever."
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The deaths from the seven principal diseases of the
zymotic class, which had been 322, 460, and 310, in the pre—
ceding three years successively, were 347 in 1898, and 8 below
the corrected decennial average (355). These deaths, of which
313 belong to the Town sub-district, and 34 only to Brompton,
were equivalent to 2.0 per 1000 persons living (2.5 in the
Town sub-district and 0.7 in Brompton), as compared with 181
in 1897. The rate in the Metropolis, as a whole, was 2.78 per
1,000 (2.58 in 1897); the decennial rate being, for London 2.7,
and for Kensington 2.06 per 1,000.