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INFLUENZA.
Seventy deaths were registered from influenza as compared
with 115, 20, and 4-4, in the preceding three years successively.
Forty-seven of the deaths occurred in the Town sub-district
and 23 in Brompton. The deaths in London, as a whole,
from this cause were 1,283, as compared with 2,117, 491, and
679, in the preceding three years, successively, and 145 below
the corrected decennial average.
Other Diseases of the Zymotic Class.—Still
dealing with the diseases in this important Class, it appears
that two deaths, one each from Ague and Remittent Fever, were
registered in Order 3 (Malarial Diseases), and no death from
Zoogenous Diseases ^comprised in Order 4.
Order 5, Venereal Diseases, includes Syphilis, Gonorrhoea,
and Stricture of the Urethra. Syphilis was the registered
cause of 16 deaths, against 19. 18, and 21, in the preceding
three years respectively. Fourteen of the deaths occurred in
the Town sub-district, and 12 of them were of children under
one year of age. If the truth were known, it would probably
appear that this Protean malady was accountable, directly or
indirectly, for many deaths in excess of the record. There
was no death from Stricture of the Urethra.
Order 6, Septic Diseases. This Order comprises Erysipelas,
Pycemia, Septicemia, and Puerperal Fever: the total
deaths registered were 12, as compared with 18, 12, and 21, in
the preceding three years respectively. Erysipelas was the
cause of 7 deaths,* all of them in the Town sub-district, as
compared with 9, 4, and 9, in the preceding three years
respectively. There was no death from Pycemia or Septicemia.
" The notified cases of erysipelas were 180, many of them being of traumatic
origin, unimportant in character, and such as the framers of the Act could scarcely
have intended to be notified.