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From Table V it will be seen that the total number of
deaths from infectious diseases and diarrhœa is somewhat
higher than the average of the previous 10 years, this
being duo to an excess of deaths from Measles; the deaths
from the other infectious diseases being in every case
(with the exception of Enteric, or Typhoid, Fever, which
is slightly above the average), below the average of the
previous 10 years.
The 167 deaths from these diseases is equivalent to a
zymotic death-rate of 1.86, as against 1.48 in 1888, the
rate for London being 2.24, and that for the 28 largest
English towns 2.73. The only towns with a lower zymotic
death-rate than our Parish are Derby, 1.51; Brighton, 1.53:
and Halifax, 1.67. The highest zymotic death-rates in
the country are furnished by Salford, with 4.57; Blackburn,
4 74; Plymouth, 5.76; and Preston, 770. These
rates are very much higher than any of the rates for 1888,
in which year the highest rate furnished by any town was
4.13.
Taking these diseases separately from the order in which
they are placed in Table V., we find that:—
Small-Pox caused no death in the Parish, and no deaths of
our Parishioners in Public Institutions outside of the Parish.
Measles caused no less than 49 deaths, a higher number
than any recorded during the previous 10 years, and more
than twice the average number of those years, and it is
owing to this fact that the zymotic death-rate of the past
year has been somewhat higher than the average of the
previous 10 years.
Scarlet Fever caused only one death in the Parish during
the year, and that was one of a non-parishioner at St.