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CLASS I.—ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Principal Zymotic Diseases.
The principal Zymotic diseases are seven in number,
viz., smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria (including
membranous croup), whooping cough, "fevers" (including
typhus, typhoid or enteric, and simple or continued), and
diarrhœa; and the zymotic death-rate is made up from the
total deaths from these diseases. As a test of the sanitary
condition of a Community, the zymotic death-rate is of
approximate value, and the statistics for Lambeth are
specially satisfactory for 1900.
In Lambeth during 1900 there were registered 517 deaths
from the seven zymotic diseases, and of these 91 were
strangers belonging to other parishes, and 426 parishioners
who died within the Parish. 71 parishioners, however,
died without the Parish. Subtracting the strangers and
adding on the parishioners who died without the Parish,
there is a corrccted total of 497, giving a zymotic corrected
death-rate of 1.6 per 1,000 inhabitants, the corrected rate
for London being 2.2, varying in the various Metropolitan
Disticts, as shown on page 10. The zymotic death-rates
corrected) for the different Registration Sub-Districts of
Lambeth vary also, as shown in Table D, which in addition
gives the death-rates and birth-rates for comparison.
Lambeth Church 2nd, Waterloo 1st and 2nd shew the highest,
and Norwood, Brixton, and Kennington 2nd the lowest,
zymotic death-rates respectively. The corrected zymotic
death-rate average) for the whole of the Inner Districts
is 2.3, and for the Outer, 1.3—a difference explainable,
as before from the crowding and absence of proper means
of home isolation and nursing in the former, as compared
with the latter, Districts.