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to the Local Mortality Table, it is seen that there has
been a very marked increase of deaths in this Sub-district
from the non-Zymotic class of maladies; but it must not be
lost sight of, that this increase is most observable in the
deaths that have taken place from diseases which are to
a great extent uncontrolled by sanitary influences. So far
this is satisfactory, but it is a little singular that if climatic
and such like influences have operated to produce the state
of things referred to, they should, all at once, have done
so in such a partial manner, and that every one of the
other Sub-districts should show in the past year results so
opposite to those disclosed in the Streatham Report. The
increase in the number of deaths over that of the previous
year was in Streatham as many as 41, whilst in Battersea,
Clapham, Wandsworth, and Putney, the numbers,
respectively, were less by 270, 122, 88, and 7, than are to
be found in the table of the last report!
Zymotic Diseases.—Although a comparison of the
Mortality Tables of the two past years discloses the gratifying
fact of a great decrease of deaths due to Small Pox
(from 377 to the very small number of 26) the disease is
still found to linger in some of the poorer localities of the
District to an extent much to be deplored. As many as
72 cases of this disease, it is found, were treated amongst
the Union poor exclusively, and that 5 of these proved
fatal during the year. The remaining 21 deaths from
Small Pox occurred, it appears, amongst a class, more or
less removed from the position of those receiving parochial
relief. There is reason to believe that Vaccination has
been prosecuted with a great deal more regularity than
formerly, nor can it be doubted that this has had much to
do with the great reduction of the number of fatal cases
throughout the District.
Measles, Scarlatina, Diphtheria, Fever, Diarrhoea, and
some other of the Zymotic class of diseases, proved also
much less fatal in the past year than in 1871, but