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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 croup), whooping cough, " fevers " (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 1899 there were registered 796 deaths
from the seven zymotic diseases, and of these 110 were
strangers belonging to other parishes, and 686 parishioners
who died within the Parish. 96 parishioners, however,
died without the Parish. Subtracting the strangers and
adding on the parishioners who died without the Parish,
there is a corrccted total of 782, giving a zymotic corrected
death-rate of 2 5 per 1,000 inhabitants, the corrected rate
for London being 2.5, varying in the various Metropolitan
Disticts, 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.
Lambeth Church 2nd, Waterloo 1st and Lambeth Church
1st shew the highest, and Brixton, Norwood, and Kennington
2nd the lowest, zymotic death-rates. The zymotic deathrate
(average) for the whole of the Inner Districts is 38,
and for the Outer, 2 03—a difference explainable, as before,
from the crowding and absence of proper means of home
isolation and nursing in the former, as compared with the
latter, Districts.
During the year 1899 under the Notification Clauses of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, 2693 cases of
Infectious Diseases have been reported, and of this number
1649, i.e. 6.2% were removed to the Hospitals of the