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ASSIGNED CAUSES OF DEATH.
Class I.—Specific Febrile 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 346, 322, and 460, in the preceding
three years successively, were 310 in 1897, and 54 below
the corrected decennial average (364). These deaths, of which
274 belong to the Town sub-district, and 36 only to
Brompton, were equivalent to 1.81 per 1,000 persons living
(2.23 in the Town sub-district and 0.74 in Brompton), as
compared with 2.7 in 1890. The rate in the Metropolis, as a
whole, was 2.58 per 1,000 (3.14 in 1896): the decennial rate
being, for London 2.8, and for Kensington 2.1 per 1,000.