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No reliable statistics exist as to the number of persons in
this sub.district belonging to each of the above classes, and no
conclusion can therefore be drawn as to the relative mortality
among them. Important conclusions may however be drawn
from the comparison of the zymotic and general mortality.
It is evident that in the first class there is a remarkable
absence of fatalities from zymotic disease, only a slight
excess in the second class, while the excess in the middle
classes amounts to 1.4 per cent., and in the labouring classes
to 37 per cent. This can only mean that in the latter classes
there is a greater carelessness regarding infection, and a lack
of treatment for such "slight" affections as Measles and
Whooping Cough, which yearly carry off many victims.
Deaths from Epidemic diseases.—The following table shews
the mortality from the seven chief epidemic diseases, as con.
pared with the mortality of the ten previous years.
The mean zymotic death.rate for the 10 years 1874.84 is
2.57 per 1,000 per annum, while that for the past year is 2.1;
including the ten deaths from infectious disease occurring in
out.lying Institutions, the zymotic death.rate is 2.3, as
compared with 3.34 for the whole of London.