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Parish of Streatham.
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The deaths from diseases of the zymotic class
yielded a percentage of 12 3 of the deaths recorded
from all causes.
The death-rate from the seven principal diseases
was equal to 1.4 per 1,000 of the population. The
corrected death-rate from all zymotic diseases was equal
to 1.7 per 1,000.
Before proceeding to further discuss the subject of
zymotic mortality, it would be well to introduce the
subject of sickness from these diseases. lleliable information
under this head can only bo obtained in
regard to those diseases which are notifiable under the
provisions of the Public Health (London) Act 1891,
and these include Smallpox, Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina,
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup, Cholera, Erysipelas,
Typhus, Enteric, Continued, Relapsing and Puerperal
Fevers; and, by an order of the Local Government Board
coming into force during the year under report, Bubonic
Plague also.
From all notifiable diseases, 472 cases of sickness
occurred during the year, Scarlet Fever contributing
the largest number to the total, followed next by
Diphtheria. A new table has also here been introduced
by direction of the Local Government Board, and, for
the first time, the cases are classified under the various
age periods, the largest number occurring between the
ages of 5 and 15 years. The Table (No. VII.) also
gives further particulars as to the number of cases
removed to hospital, the latter being principally the
institutions of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. The
percentage of removals was equal to 67. The various
diseases will each be found separately discussed in the
succeeding pages. For the purposes of comparison, the
following shows the number of cases notified during
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