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If to the 637 deaths from zymotic diseases be added
the 61 deaths from the same diseases in Out.lying Institutions
of inhabitants of this district, the zymotic
death.rate becomes 2.8 per thousand of population.
Table D (page 9) shews that 31 deaths of inhabitants
of this district from Small.pox occurred in the Asylums
Board Hospitals, while only 5 occurred at their own homes.
Epidemic Diarrhoea was the most fatal zymotic disease,
Whooping.cough and Measles coming next in fatality;
Enteric Fever caused 40 deaths within the district and
10 without; Diphtheria 28 within and 10 without; while
Scarlet Fever only caused 13 deaths altogether. The
local incidence of the mortality from the seven chief
epidemic diseases can be best understood by a comparative
study of Tables D and F.
Asylmns The above figures only give the mortality
Board hospitals. from the various epidemic diseases. The
weekly returns now sent by the Asylmns
Board to each Metropolitan Medical Officer of Health
enable us to give in the following table the number of
patients admitted into these hospitals from the various
sub.districts of the Wandsworth District, as well as from
the rest of the Metropolis, and the proportion in each
case to the population. These returns date from 23rd
January, 1885, to the end of the year.