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Table V. shows that the total number of deaths from
infectious diseases and diarrhoea was only 166, a smaller
number than in 1875, 1876, or 1878, and considerably
lower than the average of the last ten years, which has
been 211.
The number of such deaths per 1,000 of persons living
was also much less than in London generally, for, whereas
in London such deaths were in the proportion of 3.3 per
1,000 of the population, in this Parish they were only in
the proportion of 1.8 per 1,000 of the population.
Looking at these diseases separately, we find that, while
the numbers of deaths from Measles, Scarlet Fever, and
Diphtheria were higher than they were in either of the
previous three years, there were no deaths from Small-pox,
and the deaths from Whooping Cough, Fever, and Diarrhoea
were decidedly fewer than they were in 1878, and were
considerably below the average of the last ten years.
Measles and Scarlet Fever were both epidemic in the
Parish and in London generally during the year; and
Diphtheria was also very prevalent, and caused 14 deaths
(including 2 of Non-Parishioners), a higher number than in
any one of the previous 10 years with the exception of 1875,
when it caused 16 deaths.
The diminution in the number of deaths from the Continued
Fevers, essentially preventible diseases, is most marked,
and well worthy of notice. The total number of deaths
from these fevers, Typhus, Enteric, and Simple Continued
Fevers, was only 15, the smallest number in any one of the
previous 10 years having been 23 in 1873, the average
number nearly 31, and the number for 1878, 32.
Of the 16 deaths from Continued Fevers, 2 were registered
as Typhus, 12 as Enteric (Typhoid), 1 as Simple Continued
Fever, and 1 as "Bilious Fever."
The Registrar-General only gives 15 as the total of
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