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The Zymotic death-rate is equal to 0.40 per thousand of the
population.
Considering the Zymotic diseases in detail, it is seen that
there was no death from Small Pox. There were two deaths
from this disease in 1902; there have been none since that year.
There were 3 deaths from Scarlet Fever. In recent years
Scarlet Fever has not been an important cause of mortality, the
highest number of deaths in any one year being 6, in 1906.
Diphtheria caused 20 deaths.
There were 2 deaths from Enteric Fever.
There were 9 deaths from Diarrhoea, and Enteritis.
There, were 4 deaths from Measles.
There were 7 deaths from Whooping Cough.
Infantile Mortality.— During the year 1920 there were 93
deaths of infants under one year of age, as against 76 in 1919.
Eleven of these were of illegitimate children.
The infantile mortality for the year 1920, i.e., deaths under
one year of age per 1,000 births, was 54 in Hornsey. In 1919 the
infantile mortality rate was 04.
The Infantile Mortality for England and Wales is 80, and of
the 96 Great Towns 85.
The number of deaths in the first three quarters of the year
was 24, 19 and 24, and in the last quarter 26.
The number of deaths from diarrhœal diseases among infants
in 1920 was 6, the same number as for the two previous years.