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From Table V. we find that the total number of deaths
from infectious diseases and diarrhoea was 129, being the
lowest annual number yet recorded, and nearly 42
lower than the average for the previous ten years. The
129 deaths are equivalent to 1.44 per 1,000 persons living at
all ages, while the rate for London was 2-74, and that for
the twenty-eight large towns 2.86 per 1,000 living.
Of these towns only three were below this number
namely, Norwich l.0l, Halifax 1.04, Bristol l.23, while
that of Bradford, 147, was nearly the same; the highest was
Liverpool with 4.49.
The deaths from each of the infectious diseases and from
diarrhaea were all considerably below the decennial average,
with the exception of diphtheria, which is credited with
27 deaths, and simple continued fever with 8 deaths.
Small Pox.—There were no deaths registered from this
disease in the Parish during the year.
Measles caused only 13 deaths, a smaller number than
in any one of the preceding ten years except 1878, when it
caused only 11 deaths. On account of a wide-spread outbreak
of this disease in Belgravia, in March 1884, I
considered it necessary to order the closing of three schools
for three weeks.
Scarlet Fever caused only 11 deaths, the only years in
which it caused a smaller number being 1873 and 1878, in
each of which it caused 9 deaths.
One of the deaths registered as from Scarlet Fever was
that of a non-parishioner at St. George's Hospital, from
Kidney Disease after Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria caused, as already stated, no less than 27
deaths, a much higher number than in any one of the
preceding ten years, the highest number before being 18
in 1880.
Of the 27 deaths from this disease, 7 were those of