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Diphtheria : Nine deaths were caused by this very
fatal disease, as against 12 in 1899, and an annual average
of 19 during the preceding 10 years. This disease also
caused 4 deaths of Non-Parishioners in the Parish.
This disease is still very prevalent in London and in
some of the other great towns, but while the average deathrate
from it in the 33 largest English towns in 1900 was 6
per cent, above the average of the preceding ten years,
that of London was no less than 30 per cent, below its
average for the same period.
Whooping Cough: 11 deaths of Parishioners were
registered, the annual average of the previous 10 years
having been 20. This disease also caused 4 deaths of NonParishioners
in the Parish.
Typhus Fever was said to have caused 1 death during
the year, the first that has been recorded from it in the
parish since 1884. My report on this case was as
follows:—
The death certified as Typhus Fever is the first
certified under that name since 1884. The case, which
occurred in the Peabody Buildings, Ebury Bridge, was
that of a woman who had moved there from Peabody
Buildings, Chelsea, and who, six days later, was certified
as suffering from Enteric (Typhoid) Fever, and was
removed to the Tooting Hospital. Her husband had died
a fortnight before she left Chelsea, the death having been
certified as from Capillary Bronchitis, and I am assured
by the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea that no case
suggestive of Typhus Fever has occurred in the Peabody
Buildings there. The woman's case was a doubtful one
throughout, and was only certified as Typhus Fever on
account of a rash which was developing when she died,