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ordinary Zymotic Diseases. Under the heading of Other
Zymotic diseases, cases of Influenza have been recorded.
If the total of 48 outlying deaths be added to those registered
within the district, it gives a grand total of 261,
and brings the death-rate up to 14.6 per 1,000 per annum.
General Mortality
in
Putney and
Roehampton.
In Table III. all deaths registered in the
sub-district are recorded and classified according
to the cause, under the heading of age,
sex, and social position. Under the heading of respiratory
diseases, the number of deaths is rather remarkable,
and it is very much in excess of former years. This excess
is, I consider, to be attributed to the Influenza epidemic
which attacked this district so violently in the
spring of the year. The number of deaths from Cancer
has risen again. I have remarked in some of my previous
reports the tendency which this disease shows to
increase rather than diminish. This fact is borne out in
a more decided manner by the Registrar-General's report
for 1891. 412 more deaths occurred in London
alone, from this one class of disease than the average
during the previous ten years.
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