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The subjoined table, being a Summary of Table VIII. (Table III. in preceding annual
reports: vide Appendix II., page 89), shows the number of deaths from diseases in the several
Classes and Orders of the classification of the Registrar-General, referred to in the following
pages, 16-28.

Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases, in the official classification, are comprised in six
Orders, which include the first 17 diseases in Table IV. (p. 15). Amongst them are the nine which
the Registrar-General describes as the "seven principal diseases of the zymotic class"—typhus
fever, enteric fever, and simple continued fever, being grouped under the general heading
"fever." The deaths from these diseases, which had been 310, 347, and 259, in the three
preceding years, were 283 in 1900, and 63 below the corrected decennial average (346). These
deaths, of which 262 belong to the Town sub-district, and 21 to Brompton, were equivalent to 1.63
per 1,000 living (2.11 in the Town sub-district, and 0.43 in Brompton), as compared with l-50
in 1899. The rate in the Metropolis, as a whole, was 2.21 per 1,000 (2.46 in 1899), the decennial
rate being, for London 2.7, and for Kensington 2.0 per 1,000. The Kensington rate for each of the
zymotic diseases during the eleven years, 1890—1900, is set out in Table V., page 46.