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Parish of St. Mary, Store Aemington.
REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER.
Vestry Offices,
Church Street,
Stoke Newigton, N.,
February, 1898.
To the Members of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary, Stoke
Newington.
Gentlemen,
Although the general death-rate for England and Wales for the
year 1897 was slightly in excess of that for 1896, it was 1.2 per
1,000 below the mean rate for the preceding 10 years. The deaths
of infants under one year of age were also above the number registered
in 1896, and the excess was mainly due to the circumstance
that the relatively higher summer temperature of last year gave rise
to an increased mortality from Summer Diarrhoea. On the other
hand, the death-rates from Measles, Whooping Cough, Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria, and Typhoid Fever were all lower in 1897 than
in 1896.
From a public health standpoint the year 1897 presented one
great feature of surpassing importance. In the third quarter of the
year the general mortality in England and Wales rose markedly above
the average of that for a considerable term of years, and the excess