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Fever 5, from Simple Continued Fever 13, anil from Enteric
Fever 591—and 79 below the corrected decennial average (688).
The death-rate was 0.14 per 1,000 persons living, and 015
below the average rate in the ten years immediately
preceding. The corrected notifications of these diseases were,
Typhus, 6; Simple Continued Fever, 102; and Enteric Fever
3,189.
DIARRHŒA.
Diarrhœa was the cause of 61 deaths, against 98, 56,
and 118, in the preceding three years successively: 55 in the
Town sub-district, and 6 in Brompton; the corrected
decennial average being 88. All of the deaths, save 4, were
of children under five years of age, including 50 under one
year. The deaths in London from this cause were 3,223, and
101 above the corrected decennial average (3,121). The
death-rate was 0'72 per 1,000 persons living, and slightly in
excess of the average in the preceding ten years, which had
been 0 70 per 1,000.
INFLUENZA.
Influenza was not markedly prevalent, only twenty
deaths therefrom having been registered in Kensington during
the year, against 115 in 1895. Of these deaths 15 occurred
in the Town sub-district, and 5 in Brompton. The deaths
in London from this cause were 496,* and 543 below the
the corrected decennial average.
Other Diseases of the Zymotic Class.—Thus far I
have dealt with the "seven principal diseases of the zymotic
class," which, with Cholera and Influenza, comprise the
maladies which in table III. (appendix) go to make up Orders
1 and 2 (Miasmatic and Diarrhoea] Diseases) of Class 1 in the
Registrar-General's classification, viz., "Special Febrile or
Zymotic Diseases."
* This number is considerably smaller than in any year since 1890, the
first year of the epidemic in London. The deaths, moreover, did not exceed
26 per cent. of the average annual number in the six years ending with 1895.