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Table V. shows that the number of deaths from the
principal infectious diseases and diarrhœa was only 151,
a smaller number than that recorded for any previous
year except 1873, when there were only 150 deaths
registered from these diseases.
These 151 deaths are equivalent to a rate of only 1.66
per 1,000 of the population, as against 1.9 per 1,000 in
1876. The general London rate was 3.5 per 1,000, and
the average rate of the "20 large English towns" was
also 3.5. Of these towns not one had, apparently, so low
a zymotic death-rate as this Parish; the nearest to it being
Brighton and Nottingham, with a rate of 1.9 each; it must
be remembered, however, that a considerable number of
cases of some of these infectious diseases, and especially
of small-pox, are sent to Hospitals outside the Parish.
Small-pox caused 12 deaths (including 1 of a case
imported from Westminster) in the Parish, besides those of
Parishioners which occurred in the Hospitals; this is a larger
number of deaths from small-pox than has been registered
in the Parish in any one of the nine preceding years except
1871, when 59 deaths from this disease were registered.