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INQUESTS.
Twenty-three Inquests were held upon Deaths of Parishioners
during the year 1926.
PREVALENCE OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
It will be seen from Table IV. that 441 Notification Certificates
of Infections Illness were received from medical practitioners. This
represents a considerable increase as compared with the preceding
year, when the figure was 264. The increase was due almost entirely
to the epidemic prevalence of Scarlet Fever.
The Infectious Sickness Rate of the Borough, excluding the
notifications from Tuberculosis, Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, Acute
Polio-Myelitis, Encephalitis, Pneumonia, Puerperal Pyrexia and
Ophthalmia, so as to make the rate comparable with that of
earlier years, was 5.8 to each 1,000 of the population, as against
3 2 for the preceding year.
Year. Infectious Sickness
Rate.
1920 8.0
1921 12.1
1922 5.1
1923 3.1
1924 4.0
1925 3.2
1926 5.8
TABLE III.
Annual Death Rates per 1,000 of Population from
Infectious Diseases, 1926.
Enteric
Fever
Small
Pox
Measles
Scarlet
Fever
Whooping
Cough
Diphtheria
Influenza
Stoke Newington
0.00
0.00
0.11
0.00
0.02
0.09
0.23
London
0.01
0.00
0.20
0.02
0.05
0.12
0.17
England and Wales
0.01
0.00
0.09
0.02
0.10
0.07
0.22