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3 below the annual average. It also caused 2 deaths of
Non-Parishioners in the Parish.
Diphtheria: 23 deaths were caused by this very fatal
disease, as against 18 in 1894, and an annual average of 20
during the preceding 5 years. (There was also 1 death of
a Parishioner from Membranous Croup.) Diphtheria also
caused 11 deaths of Non-Parishioners in the Parish.
This disease is still exceedingly prevalent in London and
in some of the other great towns, the average death-rate
from it in the 33 largest English towns in 1895 being 40
per cent, above the average of the preceding 10 years.
Whooping Cough: 25 deaths of Parishioners were
registered, the annual average of theprevious 5 years having
been 24. This disease also caused 3 deaths of NonParishioners
in the Parish.
Typhus Fever was not, so far as I am aware, present in
the Parish during the year, and no death from it has been
recorded in the Parish since 1884.
Enteric (Typhoid) Fever: Eight deaths of Parishioners
were recorded, the same number as in 1894, and also the
same as the annual average. Six Non-Parishioners died of
this disease in the Parish.
Simple continued Fever: one death from this disease
was registered.
Diurrhaea: this disease caused 33 deaths of Parishioners
as against only 10 in 1894, and an annual average of 24.
It also caused 5 deaths of IN on-Parishioners in the Parish.
1 may note that the mean temperature of the spring,
summer, and autumn quarters of the year was above the
average of the last 124 years, and that the temperature of