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with the rate in the ten years, 1886-95, the death rate in
1896 shows a decrease of 1.7 per 1,000.
The death rate in London in 1896 was 18.1 per 1000.
The death rate of the "Outer Ring" of suburban districts,
with a population of over a million and three-quarters,
was 13.2 per 1,000.
The death rate of the thirty-three great towns of
England and Wales, with a population of over ten and
three-quarter millions, averaged 18.9 per 1,000, ranging from
14.2 in Croydon to 22.7 in Liverpool.
Zymotic Disease.
The number of deaths from the 7 principal Zymotic
Diseases was 258, as compared with 156 in the previous year,
nearly one-third being due to diphtheria.
Scarlet Fever 11 deaths, as compared with 9 in 1895.
Diphtheria 82 „ „ 17 „
Small-pox 0 „ „ 0 „
TyphoidFever 10 „ „ 9 „
Measles 42 „ „ 13 „
Whooping Cough 26 „ ,, 30 ,,
Diarrhoea 87 „ „ 72 ,,
Scarlet Fever.
There were 449 notifications of this disease received
during 1896, with 11 deaths, as compared with 337 notifications
and 9 deaths in 1895. The disease was as a rule of a
mild type, and not confined to any particular part of the
District 129 of these cases were removed to hospital.
Diphtheria.
There were 360 notifications of this disease, with 82
deaths, in 1896, as compared with 135 notifications and 17
deaths in 1895. 114 of these cases were removed to hospital.
Cases of the disease have occurred duiing the whole
year; and, as will be seen from the Table, the disease became
most prevalent during September and October, during which
months diphtheria was raging all over London.