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CLASS I.—ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Principal Zymotic Diseases.
The principal Zymotic diseases are seven in number,
viz., smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria (including
membranous coup), whooping cough, "feves" (including
typhus, typhoid or enteric, and simple or continued), and
diarrhoea; and the zymotic death-rate is made up from
the total deaths from these diseases. As a test of the
sanitary condition of a Community, the zymotic death-rate
is of approximate value, and the statistics for Lambeth are
satisfactory.
In Lambeth during 1898 there were registered 746 deaths
from the seven zymotic diseases, and of these 103 were
strangers belonging to other parishes, and 643 parishioners
who died within the Parish. 83 parishioners, however,
died without the Parish. Subtracting the strangers and
adding on the parishioners who died without the Parish,
there is a corrected total of 726, giving a zymotic corrected
death-rate of 2 4 per 1,000 inhabitants, the corrected rate
for London being 2 8, varying in the various Metropolitan
Districts, as shown on page 9. The zymotic death-rates
(corrected) for the different Registration Sub-Districts of
Lambeth vary also, as shown in Table D, which in addition
gives the death-rates and birth-rates for comparison.
Waterloo 1st and Lambeth Church 1st shew the highest,
and Brixton and Norwood the lowest, zymotic death-rates.
The zymotic death-rate (average) for the whole of the Inner
Districts is 3'03, and for the Outer, 2T2—a difference
explainable (as before) from the overcrowding and absence
of proper means of home isolation and nursing in the
former, as compared with the latter, Districts.
During the year 1898, under the Notification Clauses of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, 2329 cases of
Infectious Diseases have been reported, and of this number
c