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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Eleven deaths from zymotic diseases occurred in the
Union infirmary (one from Enteric Fever, eight from
Measles, one from Whooping Cough and one from
Diarrhœa), and 25 in the hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylum Board (one from Influenza, seven from Scarlet
fever, 13 from Diphtheria, one from Enteric Fever, and
three from Measles), a total of 36. One death from
Whooping Cough occurred in one of the internal
institutions.
The total number of deaths from zymotic diseases
thus becomes 229, compared with 161 in 1897, and 218
in 1896.
The corrected zymotic death-rate was 3.81 per 1,000,
compared with 2.8 in 1897, 3.96 in 1896, 2 03 in 1895,
and 2.64 in 1894.
In the Metropolis for the year 1S97 the zymotic deathrate
was, exclusive of Influenza, 2.77 per 1,000, while
in this parish the same rate was 3.39 per 1,000.
There was again no death from this disease
Small Pox.
during the year. One case was notified, but
not removed to hospital. The patient was a girl, who
had within the period of incubation come from near
Leicester to visit friends in the parish. Careful inquiries
both here and at her home failed to discover the
cause of infection, no case of Smallpox having occurred
in the neighbourhood of her home for some years, and
there had been no case notified in the Metropolis for
some time.
The official return of the vaccination officer for the
year 1897 shows that of 1,830 births registered, 1,432
or 78.2 per cent. had been successfully vaccinated, four
were certified as being insusceptible of vaccination, 176
died unvaccinated, 43 were postponed, 21 had removed