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The table at page 14 exhibits the distribution of the deaths in the Borough, as a whole, from
the several diseases, as recorded in the thirteen four-weekly reports.
In Appendix II., statistical information is given, in Tables B, C and D, pages 61 and 62,
showing the number of deaths from the several diseases during the fifty-three years, 1856-1908;
viz., in Table B, the annual number of deaths from each disease and the death-rate therefrom ; in
Table C, the number of deaths grouped in quinquennial periods; in Table D, the rate per 1,000 of
the population, in quinquennial periods, of the four notifiable diseases (small-pox, scarlet fever,
diphtheria and " fever "), and of the three non-notifiable diseases—measles, whooping-cough and
diarrhoea.
In England and Wales the deaths from these diseases were at the rate of 1-29 per 1,000
persons living, against 1-55, 1-77, and 1-28 respectively, in the preceding three years. In the
seventy-six great towns, including London, the average rate was 1-59.

SMALL-POX.
There was no case of this disease in the Borough during the year. Only one death (in 1904)
has been registered in the six years 1903-8.